Ruth Ben-Ghiat: I think a little moron canny, at least in my experience of it. The way these language learning models work is that they're literally just trying to predict the next word from the previous word. It's like if you ever played the game of auto completing on your text messages,. You know, you could make it say some really weird things. And so, it could be that that ends up being really dangerous and bad. But, but I find it harder to get into that mindset when I can see just see so clearly what happened.
David and Tamler get lost in the world of Susanna Clarke’s "Piranesi," a hauntingly beautiful and thrilling novel with echoes of Borges, Plato, C.S. Lewis, and even Parfit. The first part of our conversation is spoiler-free so you can listen to that section if you haven’t read it yet. (But seriously read this book! We both read it in a few days.)
Plus, watch out ladies - Sydney the Bing chatbot is coming to steal your man.
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