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Commentary On The Turing Apocrypha

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When historians finally get around to writing about the brief era between the introduction of GPT-3 and fully autonomous AI agents they will be faced with the task of reconstructing events from deeply bitrotted ephemera and decontextualized artifacts. It might not be obvious for example that Bing chat was a big deal because ChatGPT didn't have search yet. Or that early LLM writing was deeply constrained by the context window. They might not even be able to go back to early systems to check as they are built on throwaway code and models, which take up enough space and resources that both firms and users are eager to delete them to make space for the new. It is already the case that much of early AI art prompting history is lost in the bowels of EleutherAI's BATBot archives. Consider how much primary source material of the era is sitting on the site formerly known as Twitter, a platform that is now sometimes literally on fire. To make matters worse we can expect that as the number of aut

When historians finally get around to writing about the brief era between the introduction of GPT-3 and fully autonomous AI agents they will be faced with the task of reconstructing events from deeply bitrotted ephemera and decontextualized artifacts. It might not be obvious for example that Bing chat was a big deal because ChatGPT didn't have search yet. Or that early LLM writing was deeply constrained by the context window. They might not even be able to go back to early systems to check as they are built on throwaway code and models, which take up enough space and resources that both firms

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