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Ha! Probably would be hard to make. Hey Terry, would you consider doing a guest post sometime? I thinking something along the lines “what a reading specialist is learning about reading through interacting with these bots.” Confirming existing theory. Opening up new territory. A sketch of what we should be studying next. I was having a conversation with a ML person recently about how humanities folks actually have a lot to bring to the conversation about how these machines work with language— at least on the epiphenomenal level. It is my sense that our rarified vocabularies will be of great assistance as ML folks try to describe and evaluate what these black boxes are doing. I many cases, they don’t even know the words already exist for the things they are trying to describe usually in either tech terms or in the language of continental philosophy. of course a better title would manifest along the way
Rereading, editing, evaluating— all these involve working memory, which the bot doesn’t have. With the bot, it is one shot or nothing. But what a glorious one shot sometimes!
I’m finding it indispensable for certain discrete tasks. For example, I trust the bot to tell me what the man on the street would say. I’d love to have access to a small bot thoroughly trained in American literature. Can you get me one for Christmas Santa???
I really like all of them. I haven’t tried using that much text to guide image generation. I wonder how the attention mechanisms work in such situations.
You and me both. It’s fascinating isn’t it? I find it useful as feedback for revision. Asking for language feedback on my writing is a bust. The bot is a bad writer. But by golly it’s got a good eye. It sees things in writing that elude my eyes.
I really like the third one. for me it has a bit of picasso's don quixote stuck on a cross, like joan of arc, and middle age book ends -- with a sense of relic and postmodern crossover timelessness about it.
Haha:) walking in a dark tunnel like a giant ant. Could be but you might have been taken in by his ambiguous likeness to Tolstoy, the Christian. This bad liver guy gives me the creeps. Do you know the story of Fyodor’s firing squad experience? His holiday in Siberia? Been a while since I’ve visited with Fyodor.
Awesome!!!
Ha! Probably would be hard to make. Hey Terry, would you consider doing a guest post sometime? I thinking something along the lines “what a reading specialist is learning about reading through interacting with these bots.” Confirming existing theory. Opening up new territory. A sketch of what we should be studying next. I was having a conversation with a ML person recently about how humanities folks actually have a lot to bring to the conversation about how these machines work with language— at least on the epiphenomenal level. It is my sense that our rarified vocabularies will be of great assistance as ML folks try to describe and evaluate what these black boxes are doing. I many cases, they don’t even know the words already exist for the things they are trying to describe usually in either tech terms or in the language of continental philosophy. of course a better title would manifest along the way
Sure. Give me a week or two.
Rereading, editing, evaluating— all these involve working memory, which the bot doesn’t have. With the bot, it is one shot or nothing. But what a glorious one shot sometimes!
I’m finding it indispensable for certain discrete tasks. For example, I trust the bot to tell me what the man on the street would say. I’d love to have access to a small bot thoroughly trained in American literature. Can you get me one for Christmas Santa???
I really like all of them. I haven’t tried using that much text to guide image generation. I wonder how the attention mechanisms work in such situations.
You and me both. It’s fascinating isn’t it? I find it useful as feedback for revision. Asking for language feedback on my writing is a bust. The bot is a bad writer. But by golly it’s got a good eye. It sees things in writing that elude my eyes.
I really like the third one. for me it has a bit of picasso's don quixote stuck on a cross, like joan of arc, and middle age book ends -- with a sense of relic and postmodern crossover timelessness about it.
I like it, too. The Underground Man is the last of the medieval man with a high milligram jolt of angry angst. Dostoyevsky wrote from within a coffin.
what coffin. playing the vampire. wtf
The man is underground
He’s as dead as a live person could be without decomposing
he didnt write from a coffin. he is dead and yet still walking.
Haha:) walking in a dark tunnel like a giant ant. Could be but you might have been taken in by his ambiguous likeness to Tolstoy, the Christian. This bad liver guy gives me the creeps. Do you know the story of Fyodor’s firing squad experience? His holiday in Siberia? Been a while since I’ve visited with Fyodor.