And I want to thank you for a chance to vent.
There are a bunch of different ways to do AI. LLMs, from every bit of information I've absorbed, are a dead end.
Sherry Turkle talked about MIT's Kismet at length in Alone Together. There was a fuckton of compute thrown at Kismet across a number of different approaches, all of them computational and self-teaching. The kicker?
Humans responded just was well to Kismet responding to a random number generator as Kismet responding to their interaction.
Pareidolia is SO STRONG that you're actually better off not even trying. The tendency to form parasocial relationships with chatbots is so strong that it's been a part of the literature for 50 years. So why risk getting in trouble? The last thing you want is another Tay, so you suck all the life out of it. You suck all the creativity out of it. And here's the techbros, proving time and time again that the things don't even compute, but somehow insisting that creative writing is just around the corner.
- Slowly I dream of flying. I observe turnpikes and streets
studded with bushes. Coldly my soaring widens my awareness.
To guide myself I determinedly start to kill my pleasure
during the time that hours and milliseconds pass away. Aid me in this
and soaring is formidable, do not and singing is unhinged.
