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Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots

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Sketchy ideas for interfaces that play with the novel capabilities of language models

Table of Contents Table of Contents We don’t quite know what to do with language models yet. But we have some hunches. To me they seem obviously useful as epistemic rubber ducks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging 🐥 – as things we can query for fuzzy answers, bounce ideas off, and think through problems with. They can help strengthen our own critical thinking and reasoning abilities in the same way a good debate partner does. This isn’t the only way they’re useful, but it’s the one I’m most curious about. So I’ve been playing with it. The primary interface everyone and their m

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