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Re:Eliezer Yudkowsky on large language model economics by canadiantim on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:27AM (#35152053)
Yeah I was liking his post and following along until he kept repeating "shoggoth", very weird. I stopped at that part
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Re:Eliezer Yudkowsky on large language model economics by 4bpp on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:32AM (#35152154)
The "shoggoth with a smiley face" metaphor for LLMs has gained traction far beyond Yudkowsky's bubble. It even has a KYM article now: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shoggoth-with-smiley-face-art...
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Re:Eliezer Yudkowsky on large language model economics by semi-extrinsic on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:48AM (#35152371)
Doesn't make any of this less stupid though.
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Re:Eliezer Yudkowsky on large language model economics by chpatrick on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:53AM (#35152432)
Makes sense to me. It's an enormous inhuman blob trained on all of human knowledge that can manifest a personality out of nothing based on some inoffensive corporate prompt.
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