Sean Matthews

Number go down.

But where's the evidence this is a revolutionary general technology? It can't do law (lots of well publicised examples), it can't do document summary (systematic studies find), it's not very good at programming. It can do retail chatbots. Where _is_ the revolutionary generality?

Not any more, it's not.

He's great!

Dornbusch's law.

I would respond by arguing that intention is not accessible.
But disagreement about vocabulary aside, my point was that prose in itself does not manifest intelligence.

Do you mean that fluency has an intentional component?

Janan, maybe?

I am at a loss to find words to say how repellent I find this.

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One of the really interesting things that LLMs have done is to establish a clear distinction between intelligence and fluency.

But to demonstrate intelligence something has to engage effectively with the world. Prose, qua prose, good or otherwise, does not.

Cartoon with advisor telling king facing large crowd with pitchforks that he need not fight the crowd, but instead turn one against the other

Yes. It seems to have gone a bit 'land war in Asia' this morning.

I should add, because of some of the replies, that this was not an Oxford University lecture. It was part of a private lecture series happening in Oxford. We can argue the merits of hosting people like Yarvin - I went, & found it useful to hear what an idiot he is - but it's not a university issue.

Joni Mitchell, Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Neil Young?

An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.

Just brined pork belly.

No. At least not the stuff I buy.

(1) no idea, but it immediately reminds me of a recipe from Anna Del Conte, in The Gastronomy of Italy, where spaghetti is served in rings of roast red pepper, with a tomato coulis. (2) So no.

Calvin & Hobbes walking along a tree trunk laid across a river as a bridge.

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

US economic data is about to come on-line again, and the NVIDIA earnings call is tomorrow(?)

Just been looking at the FT markets data page.
Always difficult to call - the BTFD-bros may show up yet again - but this could be an interesting week.

Wonder if Dreamworks are thinking of a live action Kung Fu Panda? Certainly hope not, but it's nevertheless true that my son, who is 22, can quote it entire from memory (and is quite happy to do so at any opportunity).

However he is some way from Cary Grant (who, I get some sort of impression, is what he aspires to). But Cary Grant is no-longer a remotely attainable condition - which is why he can walk into a Bagel shop without anybody noticing.

Lynda Brown, The Modern Cooks Manual (or at least that's one place where an approach like that is described). She gives a method for risotto in two steps.

Photograph by RBO/Andrej Uspenski

WHAT a picture.

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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

Actually this is not _quite_ true. The one systematic review I have seen with positive claims (recently cited in the FT) was value added by chatbots deployed on retail websites. Which I see, frankly, as an exception that proves the rule.

of these people - I have lived in that world - and this is not the first round of hype I have experienced).

Also, because I keep a eye out for convincing examples of deployment, and I see none. I see lots of anecdotes, but _all_ the systematic reviews I have seen have been dismissive .

Well I don't know about you, but I don't think I'm typical of that sort of person. I predict it because I know a lot about how a technology that could do what is claimed for current 'AI' would have to work, and it is not how the current stuff works (and I have decades of experience with the claims