I'm interested in what the opposite might look like. "What would this look like if it were a short book rather than a longform article?"
On a different note, the rise of these types of language models mirrors what I understand to be the rise of human consciousness--a handy heuristic to lean upon that gradually becomes too handy to actually put down. Over time, the user is overshadowed by the tool and loses sight that any other cognitive world existed. It's hard for me not to see Julian Jaynes' idea of bicamerality and "verbal delusions" piloting the brain being repeated with computers.
In fact, I think I'll use this weekend to go read The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind with this idea in mind.
On a different note, the rise of these types of language models mirrors what I understand to be the rise of human consciousness--a handy heuristic to lean upon that gradually becomes too handy to actually put down. Over time, the user is overshadowed by the tool and loses sight that any other cognitive world existed. It's hard for me not to see Julian Jaynes' idea of bicamerality and "verbal delusions" piloting the brain being repeated with computers.
In fact, I think I'll use this weekend to go read The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind with this idea in mind.