Thread by @PnictogenHorses

of *course* @sama's fake ChatGPT miracle relies upon an army of underpaid workers just out of sight! of _course_ it does! this is the work of modern #programmers, people without any known sense of ethics—and people stupid enough to believe their own lies.

https://twitter.com/billyperrigo/status/1615682194244096002?s=20&t=ALuVxmsVhtYW46uKVocQgA

the corporate #AI debacle deserves a proper dissection. the situation is appalling: people like @sama and @demishassabis make promises about their marvellous universal thinking machines that are *just shy* of outright fraud. and they program the machines with their own inanity.

that's the real problem here: @sama and @fchollet and all the other computer technicians who make grandiose promises and proclamations about #AI and "intelligence" are, to put the matter bluntly, completely incompetent at judging *anyone's* intellect, least of all their own.

they are people of exceedingly specialized and narrow expertise, and yet they pretend to be generalists? why? because #AI / #AGI is sold as the ultimate generalist.

that's the @fchollet / @sama / @demishassabis claim: they say their thinking machines can learn any material.

but @fchollet, @sama, &c. aren't capable of telling good material from bad—in general, #computer programmers are hopelessly ignorant and inept at all fields outside their limited domain. but they've convinced themselves their ignorance doesn't matter—their machines are "better".

but that's the problem. *how would they know 'better'?*

can @sama or @JeffDean, or any of the other superficial computer nerds who hopes to make a fortune by selling "artificially intelligent" software be trusted to know _anything_ that's not computer programming? anything?

I assert that the answer to this question is "no". @sama, @fchollet, &c. are not fit judges of knowledge outside their technical specialty.

they would have *no idea* whether their #AI / #MachineLearning tools were doing a good job of learning—they, themselves, *don't learn*.

they all *think* they've somehow gained mastery of every subject, but ask @sama or @fchollet any tough questions about any subject or field that's not their specialty—then it's easy to learn just how superficial their knowledge is. they have a Cliff's Notes grasp on the world.

and these are the people who say they're going to deliver us a universal thinking machine, good for all purposes. why you can even pay a sum of money for a robotic version of Winston Churchill, one who (like @bindelj or @Docstockk) has been programmed to deny British genocides.

the #AI crowd offer #capitalism no less than the erasure of history—the embodiment of legends and propaganda in programmatic form—the rejection of the inconvenient world of verifiable and material facts.

well done, @sama &c. you've found a way to destroy the *past*.

~Mona

and you'll be remembered for this achievement, @sama. oh yes. you have in fact made yourself famous.

I will make very sure of your fame, in fact—if nobody else does it first.

~Mona Drafter

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