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Tim Bray

In which I ask meta.ai a few questions about myself and the world. No real *new* news here: The answers are plausible but wrong: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Decent entertainment value; still waiting for progress on modeling meaning.

ongoing by Tim BrayMeta.ai Oh My!

@timbray I got my 5 year old a “my first book about computers” from the library. It has a lot about how computers are hyper literal and need everything broken into small steps of if/then and loops. LLMs don’t work like a computer. It’s a real problem. A computer shouldn’t half remember who Tim Bray is. “Hmm yeah, definitely heard that name before. Isn’t he the guy that invented JSON?”

"The answers are plausible but wrong": the official slogan of LLMs.

@timbray I asked ChatGPT about myself when it came out and it said I work at Google which was funny as I never did (I did try to interview once but bailed out of the process as it was too hard!)

@timbray I expect this won’t last long

@daveshea @timbray I’d wager a small amount Meta doesn’t curtail that answer. They seem to be a thick-skinned company, and it’s a balanced answer. (Wouldn’t be shocked if they “fix” that, either, of course.)

@gruber @daveshea @timbray Facebook will almost certainly let that answer stand because it’s incomplete, wrong, and basically lets them off the hook.