Flutterby™! : You are not a parrot

New York Magazine: You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

I've been thinking a lot recently about how once LLMs hit the scene I stopped seeing "content farming" everywhere and started seeing ChatGPT everywhere, and how I'm now not sure as I'm wading through the dreck that Google returns if it's humans or compute polluting the infosphere.

And how the corollary to this is that quite a bit of humanity and human endeavor can be replaced by a couple of GPUs stuffed into a computer, and how our bar for "intelligent" is actually pretty low.

I'm still pondering those thoughts, and now I need to go back and really read Bender's Climbing towards NLU, because my history of interacting with humans means that the octopus thought experiment doesn't rule out an awful lot of human behavior, but lots of good stuff in this article.