> Saying, as the OpenAI CEO does[1], that we are all 'stochastic parrots' like large language models, statistical generators of learned patterns that express nothing deeper, is a form of nihilism. Of course, the elites don't apply that to themselves, just to the rest of us. The structural injustices and supremacist perspectives layered into AI put it firmly on the path of eugenicist solutions to social problems.
[1] Sam Altman: i am a stochastic parrot, and so r u
That this isn't even sentence-to-sentence consistent is somehow one of the less egregious aspects of it.
> Saying, as the OpenAI CEO does[1], that we are all 'stochastic parrots' like large language models, statistical generators of learned patterns that express nothing deeper, is a form of nihilism. Of course, the elites don't apply that to themselves, just to the rest of us. The structural injustices and supremacist perspectives layered into AI put it firmly on the path of eugenicist solutions to social problems.
[1] Sam Altman: i am a stochastic parrot, and so r u
That this isn't even sentence-to-sentence consistent is somehow one of the less egregious aspects of it.