'There is a yawning gap'
There is a yawning gap between "AI tools can be handy for some things" and the kinds of stories AI companies are telling (and the media is uncritically reprinting). And when it comes to the massively harmful ways in which large language models (LLMs) are being developed and trained, the feeble argument that "well, they can sometimes be handy..." doesn't offer much of a justification.
Technology researcher Molly White, writing in her newsletter, [Citation Needed]. In the post that follows, she compares some popular early use cases of AI -- such as improving grammar -- and asks whether we need huge energy-guzzling LLMs to make them possible.
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