Examples:
prompt → text input
answer → output
chatbot / conversational agent → conversation simulator
(many more in the article)
glorified autocomplete. profit-seeking trojan horse for propaganda purposes. self-inflicted workforce deskilling. unsustainability generator.
“(statistics based) random word generator”
Stochastic parrot (stole that one from David Revoy)
I don’t like it, it’s unfair to parrots.
ai is shit
Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
It’s upsetting because linguistically I generally find anthropomorphization a lot of fun. Tree struck by lightning? Poor guy hasn’t been having a good time. Microwave sometimes unresponsive when you press the buttons? He’s been a little disagreeable lately.
I don’t want to give the AI dignity, but allowing it to change my speech patterns also seems like dignifying it.
