Dr. Dorothea Baur - Latest News and Information
"users who heavily relied on LLMs submitted essays with 50% fewer pronouns, which was representative of the larger shift toward impersonal language that included fewer anecdotes and references to human experiences". And you wonder why... https://t.co/3Fm3ZyjtFC
"When meaning is unstable as it is in literary works, a probabilistic, least-common-denominator interpretation is inherently worthless. An AI translation is fluff, it is slop and it is void" Brilliant piece on machine translation. https://t.co/VMg6W5C58m ht @lenitiv
"Human freedom is not randomness; it is the capacity to reinterpret who we are and what counts as a good life... That capacity cannot be engineered—it must be socially and culturally protected" @MCoeckelbergh on the risks of 'behavior optimizing AI....
"Just as the absence of spoken language was wrongly taken as evidence of absent intelligence in the past, the presence of fluent language output is now being wrongly taken as evidence of present intelligence. It’s a similar error, inverted" @mmitchell_ai...
"The implicit promise from the people building and selling this sort of information pipeline about the Iran conflict is that AI can be a great democratizing force." Hard to think of a more inappropriate use of the verb "democratize". https://t.co/cLUWZ3tYWm
"The pressure to use AI 'created more friction as it became obvious that we were being monitored for our usage, and we were being told that we had to use it', even if it was the less efficient route to...
There's a "curious affinity between... nihilism and AI enthusiasm: If truth is irrelevant anyway, then LLMs – which essentially produce plausible statements without reference to truth (critics call it bullshit) – are not a threat but confirmation" https://t.co/6vkPk0n6NP
