New and Old #98
Friday roundup and commentary
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web, The New Yorker, Ted Chiang, February 9, 2023
This is a very good piece, and it brings all this worry over AI back down to earth. You should really read the whole thing, but Chiang compares ChatGPT to a “lossy” compression of the internet, as opposed to a “lossless” one, which is basically what search engines are. And …
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