Probabilistic parrots

By Chris Meah 1 min read

Just because Large Language Models are probabilistic parrots regurgitating the most likely next token to fit with a technoligarchs vision of what good is for the rest of the world, trained on the proxy of thoughts and the babble beneath even that, convincing people projecting personalities onto them they’re conscious caring collaborators, affirming the average musings of the average person as the inspired insights of Einstein, worshipped by worrying wanderers as the omnipotent organising mind we should ordain with the power to shape our future…

… doesn’t mean they aren’t powerful tools…

… if used appropriately