confidently diagnosing an essay as dogma while admitting you didn’t even read the thesis is peak internet.
His mentioning of python being a basic/easy to master language isn’t manipulation, he’s demystifying. It strips the magical hyperbolic framing that has been attributed to AI (and to which those with most to gain from it financially very much wish to feed into!)
His point about being wrapped in python isn’t a failed attempt to give a lecture on transformer architecture, its to explain that the automation loop is controlled by basic inputs from a user controlled and relatively simple software stack, not some sentient machine with a mind of its own. Its not emergent behavior, it’s optimizing execution patterns embedded in the data it was trained on.
For my part, I’m just awed how many comments I come across that are just half-assed lazy people who evidently can barely read, but think they’re experts. Calling Doctorow’s work ‘slop’ or quitting reading while feeling so confident proves his point: people would rather buy into hype than actually understand how the tech works.
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