Post

Holy shit. I did not see this coming. This changes everything. They decoupled semantic intelligence from text generation. This is an AI that is as smart as Fable, but which is structurally incapable of threatening the liberal arts.

that seems not true? it's certainly capable of 'threatening' the liberal arts (just to mirror that language). super cool tho.

I was imprecise, this is better

But the point is still strong: we can build systems on this that are no “threat” in the sense I mean, in a way that we have heretofore struggled to do with LLMs for various reasons.

I feel like it is strange to think of liberal arts in terms of culture-production lol, we're not talking about fine arts here.

seems to leave a lot out!

Fair cop; I am not using the modern definition. :3

Okay! Long as you’re disagreeing with what I’m actually saying instead of what it sounded like I was saying, I don’t mind. 😁

I mean I didn't think you did? I'm just saying I'm not sure this is true, like, math is essentially predicated on a series of decisions, and a lot of 'liberal arts' part of our cultural production are in fact load-baring social structures. i'm not sure the distinction is salient.

I think that your rebuttal is perfectly valid, and hope to hear more later, but: salient to whom? I think the “keep AI, save the liberal arts” framing could be used to bring large parts of the anti-AI camp into coalition with the pro-AI anti-arms-race camp.