I wasn’t sure whether they intended that as exoneration or explanation but I think it should be the latter. The right way to think about LLMs is as a credulous hire with no job history: McDonald’s will hire a random 16 year old but only to work in a controlled environment with oversight, not to open the CEO’s mail and tell them what’s important.
I would shy away from any comparisons to a human. The right way to think about LLMs is like generative fill for text or reverse text summarization imho
I agree. I think as soon as you refer to AIs as what they are, computer programs, a lot of problems and solutions prevent themselves.
For example, why are some people trying to give rights to computer programs? Since when have computer programs had rights? Fair use doctrine, for example, is a right for human beings.
Fair, I’m really thinking about it in response to people pushing products with terminology we normally use for people but the comparison really is tricky since this is our first collective experience with something which can sound authoritative without any deeper understanding and historically many people have used one as the proxy for the other.
