Category Archives: AI is a misnomer

“Brain and Brain! What Is Brain?”

Posted on March 3, 2023 by JE

Some great demonstrations here of how chatbots don’t think. I especially like the bot’s explanation of why a pound of feathers weighs the same as two pounds of bricks. An entity that could think would recognize the issue there. The … Continue reading →

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Human vs. Parrot

Posted on March 1, 2023 by JE

A great piece by Elizabeth Weil about Emily Bender, who is waging a war of ideas against stochastic parrots. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

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Invasion of the Stochastic Parrots

Posted on February 20, 2023 by JE

Apparently enough fatheads were taken in by the chatbot hype this winter to flood electronic submission portals with chatbot-written fiction. At last there’s an option for the person who’s too dumb or lazy to read but who thinks they can … Continue reading →

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I Think, Therefore I Chat?

Posted on December 30, 2022 by JE

This brilliantly sums up my lack of wow at the Invasion of the Chatbots. [edited to add:] Here’s the discussion out of which the phrase arose. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33841672 It’s more narrowly directed at the chatbots’ inability to deal with actual fact … Continue reading →

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