About the author: Karawynn Long is a Mexico-based sci-fi and fantasy author and novelist. Very aware of her social standings and intersectionality.
- Heuristic as an adjective vs in psychology are very different. IE. learning for yourself, or taking a mental shortcut.
- Living a life without communication and the assumption of intellectual deficiency.
- "Language fluency heuristic"
- From simple-minded to sub-human
- "misnamed field of 'artificial intelligence'"
- LLMs language fluency = smart, comprehending.
- Fluency of language displays the distinction between text-to-image generation and language-only models.
- we attribute a mind behind the computing
- getting form over meaning
- not actually mimicking a brain, we don't fully understanding how brains work!
- there is no conceivable path to a functioning simulated brain with emotions central and an ability to explore sensory environment
- "the autocomplete may get spicier, but it's still just autocomplete"
- creepy/obsessive/stalkery
- connotations of intent to deceive, there is no intent ("it's not even lying")
- language used in this - a very frustrated person who experiences disability
- we need to side-eye these CHOICES - adding feelings, creating avatars, assigning emotions
- problematic fact that humans sometimes possess ethics and independent thinking
- "MARKET FOR VOLLEYBALLS" castaway reference, this is a predatory venture
- computer = factual and trustworthy
- computers are reliably accurate heuristic
- in class reference last week in history class someone used chatgpt to try and find information on a photographer and was lead very astray
- confliction between humanlike and reliable accuracy <3
- language and intelligence
- parrots!