Award-winning science fiction author Ted Chiang (who has a CS degree, btw) has a new article in the New Yorker on ChatGPT. He makes an interesting analogy for what it does to lossy compression of the text from which its LLM was created. #AI #LLM #ChatGPT
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
The noted speculative-fiction writer Ted Chiang on OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, which, he says, does little more than paraphrase what’s already on the Internet.Ted Chiang (The New Yorker)