Anirvan Chatterjee on Nostr: “LLMs are, as Ted Chiang pithily put it, blurry JPEGs of human knowledge - that is, ...
“LLMs are, as Ted Chiang pithily put it, blurry JPEGs of human knowledge - that is, they are tools for generating lossy summarizations of large bodies of human knowledge. That (contra Ted’s own interpretation) can be quite useful, in the same way, for example, as statistics, another more familiar form of lossy summarization is useful. When you quantify data, enormous amounts of information are thrown out.”
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