HeyJaredChristopher Lansdown
Catholic author of the Chronicles of Brother Thomas murder mysteries. Philosophy and theology are my favorite subjects (i.e. I'm interested in everything). A computer programmer by trade.
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Discussions of AI Are Often Worse than the Term AI (opens the original)
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The term AI, short for Artificial Intelligence, is a marketing term rather than a serious description of anything. These days it mostly refers to either Large Language Models (LLMs, the things which generate text) or Diffusion Models (the things that generate images). Neither of these are intelligence—natural or otherwise—and calling them AI is just a marketing term. Both of these things are just massive matrices (if you’re too lazy to click the link, grids of numbers multiplied in a special way
It’s Very Hard For a Rich Man To Enter the Kingdom of Heaven (opens the original)
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In the excellent movie Interview with the Vampire, there is a fascinating scene where the 500 year old vampire Armand explains to the recently made vampire (and main character) Louis that there are not, in fact, many old vampires. As he explains that most die for pointless reasons or just fade away because they lose the will to continue, he says:Do you know how few vampires have the stamina for immortality? How quickly they perish of their own will? The world changes, but we do not. Therein lies
What Parasites Teach Us About Progressive Institutional Capture (opens the original)
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For the last thirty years or so, I’ve been watching people complain about the progressive capture of institutions, turning them from what they had been into instruments of progressive propaganda. Newspapers became instruments of progressive propganda before I was born, and Universities turned into it while I was a child, but it became especially noticeable perhaps thirty years ago. We’ve seen similar things with comic books and movies. And these have all declined tremendously in their cultural s
I Don’t Understand the People Who Think LLMs are Intelligent (opens the original)
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are the things which are often called by the marketing term “AI.” To oversimplify, they consist a of a collection of enormous matrices and some ways of turning text into matrices and matrices into text. They are enormously useful tools for many applications, but the idea that they are intelligent is simply a category error.This was described in a picturesque way in a tweet by David Deutch:“Come see our artificial bird!”“
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