Are AI Language Models in Hell?

Metadata

• Author: Robin Sloan
• Full Title: Are AI Language Models in Hell?
• Category:#articles
• URL: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/language-models-hell/

Highlights

• The more I use language models, the more monstrous they seem to me. I don’t mean that in a partic­u­larly negative sense. Frankenstein’s monster is sad, but also amazing. Godzilla is a monster, and Godzilla rules. Really, I just think monstrous­ness ought to be recognized, not smoothed over. Its contours, intel­lec­tual and aesthetic, ought to be traced. Here is my attempt. The monstrous­ness I perceive in the language models isn’t of the leviathan kind; rather, it has to do with cruel limitations. (View Highlight)