After effectively debunking all sorts of crypto and blockchain related nonsense, Amy Castor and @davidgerard have now turned their attention to the current #AI hype.
Lots of good stuff, including some much needed background to the alarmist warnings on AI risk by various AI luminaries.
Their characterization of #ChatGPT as "a stupendously scaled-up autocomplete" is spot-on as well.
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/06/03/crypto-collapse-get-in-loser-were-pivoting-to-ai/
@bitsgalore @davidgerard I like the authors' point about "hallucination" in there. Saying that #LLMs "can hallucinate" false things suggests that they have another "non-hallucinating" mode. But they don't. Describing the failures this way is yet another anthropomorphism that boosts the #AI hype.
