Can I give a shout-out here to LLMs like ChatGPT, because that entire field seems to be a massive multi-billion dollar case of Gell-Mann amnesia? And by "shout-out" I mean "rant", obviously.

People keep telling me how amazing the results they get from ChatGPT are; and invariably on objective inspection the results are, in fact, at best sh…

Some thoughts on generative AI (including LLMs).

The entire premise of generative AIs is that if you shove enough turds up a cow's ass, you'll get grass out of its mouth.

Now that web content is being rapidly generated by LLMs, we have reached the stage of the lifecycle comparable to when British beef farmers started grinding up the brains of cows that died from Mad Cow Disease (BSE) to other cows.

Imagine a Human Centipede. (If you don’t know what that is, you don’t want to.) Imagine connecting …