LLMs 6
- Studies showing a language model behaving badly prove nothing, because the model was asked to produce that behaviour.
- A language model cannot produce work that is both original and good, because nothing gives it a score for originality.
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Google 3
- Incumbents have looked unbeatable at the start of every previous platform shift and have still lost.
- Proprietary data is not an advantage in training large language models, because no company's holdings are large enough to matter.
Anthropic 2
- Studies showing a language model behaving badly prove nothing, because the model was asked to produce that behaviour.
- The leading chatbots are undifferentiated: in a blind test most people could not tell one model's output from another's.
chat interfaces 2
- Around a tenth of people use a chatbot daily and another fifteen to twenty per cent weekly, far below the headline adoption figures.
- The leading chatbots are undifferentiated: in a blind test most people could not tell one model's output from another's.
government 2
- A sophisticated economy cannot be centrally planned, because planning removes the price signal that carries information about demand.
- Regulating artificial intelligence as a single category is the wrong level of abstraction, in the way that regulating databases or spreadsheets would be.
Microsoft 2
- Being certain a technology matters tells you almost nothing about where its value will end up being captured.
- Incumbents have looked unbeatable at the start of every previous platform shift and have still lost.