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Silicon Valley Confronts the Idea That the 'Singularity' Is Here

14 points| kungfudoi | 2 years ago |nytimes.com | reply

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[+] civilitty|2 years ago|reply
No, it doesn't. It's an intellectual circle jerk between the "it's just a markov parrot, bro" camp and a Skynet death cult.

There's is very little philosophical exploration about what LLMs mean for epistemology ("hallucinations") or its connection to linguistics. What we really need is a 21st century Ludwig Wittgenstein and a new Philosophical Investigations