
CategoryLarge Language Models (LLMs)


Is Open AI — and Chatbots in General — the Next Train Wreck?
Gary Marcus notes the string of head office departures and both he and Jeffrey Funk look at the history of hype, hope, and long AI winters
Computer ‘Creativity’ Is Simply Digital Plagiarism
One outcome is many lawsuits against generative AI companies whose programs snatch and use copyrighted material
Engineer Explains Why AI Bots Always Lean Left
ChatGPT kept insisting on scientific consensus as the most important factor in what to believe regarding global warming and similar issues
A Sloppy “AI Scientist” Could Make the Science Crisis Much Worse
A research team claims to have developed the AI Scientist that “generates novel research ideas, writes code, executes experiments ...” Really?
AI Going MAD? The Model Collapse Problem Gets More Attention Now
The problem is that the AI can't generate anything new on its own and the old stuff, endlessly recycled at high speeds, begins to erode
Why the Artificial Intelligence Bubble May Be About To Burst
For one thing, Space Odyssey’s HAL and Prometheus’s David aren’t really happening, for good reasons