What would be really good now would be if computer/data science departments established programs in reading and interpreting text. There could be theories of text, and examples of texts from other time periods and other cultures. Above all, students would learn how to look at texts very closely.
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Ted Underwood
Correspondence to Nature:
"LLMs are trained on texts, not truths. Each text bears traces of its context, including its genre … audience and the history and local politics of its place of origin. A correct sentence in one [context] might be … nonsensical in another." Excellent. We're getting there!
"LLMs are trained on texts, not truths. Each text bears traces of its context, including its genre … audience and the history and local politics of its place of origin. A correct sentence in one [context] might be … nonsensical in another." Excellent. We're getting there!
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wouldnt it be so fun
maybe in like a college or school that studies, like, "information" or something?
https://digitalculture.uchicago.edu/teaching/masters-program/
Adding LLMs into the mix with increasingly multimodal datasets and graph database ontologies has been exhilarating, to say the least.
Idk, too sciencey?
too many syllables?
We could sing this song at the start of every class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb47CstE7R4