This is in line with University of Washington linguistics professor Dr. Emily Bender’s idea of the “stochastic parrot”—that language models are just regurgitating sequences of characters probabilistically based on what they’ve seen in their training data, but without really knowing the “meaning” of the characters themselves. (View Highlight)
This shift in how we see the world aligns with what I’ve previously called the allocation economy. As AI takes over these repetitive tasks, our role changes from doing the work ourselves, to deciding what work needs to be done and how to best allocate our resources to do it. (View Highlight)