Is It a Stry Sand Effect?

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Ai ethics researcher was fired for writing a paper about a i ethics. I have not ever had a piece of my writing be so widely read as that paper. The comparison to parrots is really interestinglo made. We are such language is so deeply hard wired inside of us as this thing that is connected to intelligence. It's almost impossible for us to not treat the parrot as, you know, a an equal mind when it is speaking to us this way. And so that seems to me to be a great comparison to what we're doing with gpt three.

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