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Theory of the World, Theory of Mind, and Media Incentives

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This post will mostly just restate what I said here, so you can skip it if you read that post. But with absurd AI talk running wild - right now discussion of this topic is one of the least responsible moments I can remember in contemporary media history, which is

This post will mostly just restate what I said here, so you can skip it if you read that post. But with absurd AI talk running wild - right now discussion of this topic is one of the least responsible moments I can remember in contemporary media history, which is really saying something - I’m moved again to make a basic point about large language models like ChatGPT. Decades ago, a computer scientist named Terry Winograd pointed out that there’s no such thing as a system that can truly master language without a theory of the world. That is to say, as the science of meaning, semantics cannot…

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