{"id":85911,"date":"2023-03-06T14:37:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T19:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85911"},"modified":"2023-03-06T14:38:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T19:38:49","slug":"a-very-powerful-thought-provoking-read-you-are-not-a-parrot-weil-bender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/03\/06\/a-very-powerful-thought-provoking-read-you-are-not-a-parrot-weil-bender\/","title":{"rendered":"A very powerful, thought-provoking read: &#8220;You are not a parrot.&#8221; [Weil &#038; Bender]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>You are not a parrot<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from nymag.com by Elizabeth Weil and Emily M. Bender<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-85912 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/EmilyBender-YouAreNotAParrot-3-1-23.jpg\" alt=\"You Are Not a Parrot. And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/EmilyBender-YouAreNotAParrot-3-1-23.jpg 747w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/EmilyBender-YouAreNotAParrot-3-1-23-132x150.jpg 132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A handful of companies control what PricewaterhouseCoopers called a \u201c$15.7 trillion game changer of an industry.\u201d Those companies employ or finance the work of a huge chunk of the academics who understand how to make LLMs. This leaves few people with the expertise and authority to say, \u201cWait, why are these companies blurring the distinction between what is human and what\u2019s a language model? Is this what we want?\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBender knows she\u2019s no match for a trillion-dollar game changer slouching to life. But she\u2019s out there trying. Others are trying too. LLMs are tools made by specific people \u2014 people who stand to accumulate huge amounts of money and power, people enamored with the idea of the singularity. The project threatens to blow up what is human in a species sense. But it\u2019s not about humility. It\u2019s not about all of us. It\u2019s not about becoming a humble creation among the world\u2019s others. It\u2019s about some of us \u2014 let\u2019s be honest \u2014 becoming a superspecies. This is the darkness that awaits when we lose a firm boundary around the idea that humans, all of us, are equally worthy as is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are not a parrot &#8212; from nymag.com by Elizabeth Weil and Emily M. 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