Hallucinations: In Xanadu did LLMs vainly fancify
Bill Benzon has been our most prolific humanistic commentator about GPTs, almost as prolific as GPTs themselves. Here he introduces his latest creation in / on the genre:
"From 'Kubla Khan' through GPT and beyond", 3 Quarks Daily (3/27/23)
In a covering note to me, Bill writes:
A story about how I came to be interested in GPTs. It’s also implicitly a critique of the large language model business. You have a bunch of very smart and clever people creating engines that pump out language by the bucketful, but who seem to have little interest in or knowledge about language itself, much less linguistics, psycholinguistics, or the various cognitive sciences. It’s crazy. But the machines they’re producing are marvelous and fascinating.
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