Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
Follow
I find it weirdly striking of how much in this debate just seems like a "affirming the consequent" fallacy - in what world is the brain is a computer => a computer is a brain sound in any way?!
Similarly, granted that a bunch of human learning is associative - that doesn't mean all of it is, or that any associative learning would be human
