If you click the article link, then use a process called “reading”, you would see:
The company has already launched similar services abroad in Egypt, Nigeria, and India. Now it’s bringing the concept to the United States.
Edit: I misunderstood and assumed he hadn’t read the article, which is entirely too common these days.
the argument that they can’t learn doesn’t make sense because models have definitely become better.
They have to be either trained with new data or their internal structure has to be improved. It’s an offline process, meaning they don’t learn through chat sessions we have with them (if you open a new session it will have forgotten what you told it in a previous session), and they can’t learn through any kind of self-directed research process like a human can.
all of your shortcomings you’ve listed humans are guilty of too.
LLMs are sophisticated word generators. They don’t think or understand in any way, full stop. This is really important to understand about them.
Unpaywalled link: https://archive.is/6RhUG
Wait until the New York Times finds out that the New York Times is one of the biggest propagators of sinophobia.
Also this bit is interesting:
The amygdala is a pair of neural clusters near the base of the brain that assesses danger and can help prompt a fight-or-flight response. A prolonged stress response may contribute to anxiety, which can cause people to perceive danger where there is none and obsess about worst-case scenarios.
At least one study has shown that conservatives tend to have a larger right amygdala: Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults
We found that greater liberalism was associated with increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex, whereas greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of the right amygdala.
I happened to see this discussion on Reddit last night: What’s something you’ve stopped eating because it’s become too expensive?
Hundreds and hundreds of people who apparently didn’t get the memo that the economy is just super-duper right now.
Why not? They can only go up in value!