Ken Liu
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction.
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Their wordsHowever, I don’t find this answer particularly convincing. Besides my constitutional aversion to any instrumentalist justification for art
↗Why Science Fiction Never Gets the Future Rightkenliu.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsscience fiction writers are not very good at predicting the future (either positive or negative). I don’t think science fiction has much to do with the future, at all.
↗Why Science Fiction Never Gets the Future Rightkenliu.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWith all that investment and theft and hype, we’ve built these machines that are supposed to bring about the next Industrial Revolution, and now we have to beg them not to be lazy.
↗"Please Don't Be Lazy"kenliu.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordswhile I can’t rule out the possibility that a few of these may be legitimate service providers, the vast majority are scammers.
↗"Please Don't Be Lazy"kenliu.substack.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsWith the rise of AI, these scammers have been using LLMs to make their pitches far more targeted and precise.
↗"Please Don't Be Lazy"kenliu.substack.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsWith all that investment and theft and hype, we’ve built these machines that are supposed to bring about the next Industrial Revolution, and now they’re used to make money by exploiting our vulnerabilities, our desire to connect.
↗"Please Don't Be Lazy"kenliu.substack.com 4th of 4 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsLanguage is the memory of our ancestors; when we speak and think in English, we literally retrace history with our tongues.
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The real intelligence in large language models is the knowledge encoded in human language.
Their wordsThis, by the way, is the real “intelligence” in large language models. That pattern-matching machines can do so much with so little “reasoning” is a testament to the rich cognitive trove we’ve encoded in our collective linguistic productions.