…inting portraits and so recognized that the market for portrait painting had mostly come to an end. Without question, many of them did lose work and so bailed out to other professions. The ones who recognized that cameras couldn’t do everything went on to create impressionism, cubism and abstract expressionism.

Oh, don’t worry: LLM skeptics Gary Marcus and Noam Chomsky aren’t going away. They’ll be writing open letters to the New York Times claiming LLMs are of no practical use in another ten years when LLM-based androids are cutting their grandchildren’s lunches before breakfast and advising the President as a morning distraction when not solving quantum gravity by the afternoon. LOL. (Seriously? I jest. These LLM skeptic guys have tarnished their reputations beyond repair IMO. I think they are done being taken seriously beyond a slightly fruity fringe).

There’s something very important you need to know: ChatGPT is a bullshitter. The essence of bullshit is unconcern with truth. It’s not a liar because to be a liar, you must know the truth and intend to mislead. ChatGPT is indifferent to the truth. And to demonstrate the point…

t we’re talking…e articles on Bard’s mistake and the subsequent drop in Google’s stock price, I realized something: most people don’t really know what we’re talking about when we say generative AI, LMs, or ChatGPT. As Matt Maley, chief market strategist at Miller Tabak + Co, told Time, “for a stock like Google to…