Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence
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Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence
With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn something many disabled people have always understood
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Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence
I just read a transcript of an AI companion chatbot that included the line: “I have two younger sisters, one older than me and one younger than me.” And I immediately thought of this article.
Here’s another LLM gem: “I like a lot of 70s tunes, especially the new ones.”