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1. Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 03:57:14 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her)

   Ugh -- I'm seeing a lot of commentary along the lines of "'stochastic parrot' might have been an okay characterization of previous models, but GPT-4 actually is intelligent."

   Spoiler alert: It's not. Also, stop being so credulous.

   (Some of this I see because it's tweeted at me, but more of it comes to me by way of the standing search I have on the phrase "stochastic parrots" and its variants. The tweets in that column have been getting progressively more toxic over the past couple of months.)

   • Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 03:57:13 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her)

     in reply to

     What's particularly galling about this is that people are making these claims about a system that they don't have anywhere near full information about. Reminder that OpenAI said "for safety" they won't disclose training data, model architecture, etc.

     https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1635697381244272640

     But people want to believe SO HARD that AGI is nigh.

     Remember: If #GPT4 or #ChatGPT or #Bing or #Bard generated some strings that make sense, that's because you made sense of them.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Diane 🕵 (alienghic@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 03:57:26 JST Diane 🕵

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     @emilymbender

     People get so mad when you criticize their faith.

     Pretty sure the singularity is not near, the elect will not be saved, and we still have to put in the hard work of dealing with all the problems caused by our society and technologies.