Have finally coded a Small Language model. Responds to any input with “wow, that’s a lot of words” and then shuts down
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My latest at @flaminghydra.com —for our "Lost Internet" series—is a meditation on the zen of Zombocom:
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Taylorism is a management philosophy based on using scientific optimization to maximize labor productivity and economic efficiency. Here's the result of making the false Taylorist assumption that the output of scientific research is scientific papers—the more, faster, and cheaper, the better.
Here's the weird Taylorism again. The system produces work at the level of an early trainee requiring substantive supervision. This is not good ROI for producing papers. The primary output of time invested in trainee research is the development of independent scientists—not the research papers.
Rob Horning is such a great resource for making sense of what is happening with technology. This is a great piece on the tendency to add an AI generated chatbot to every website and the dream, or nightmare, of replacing human contact with AI "friends." open.substack.com/pub/robhorni...
It always seems strange to me that when “chat” is proposed as a mode of information retrieval.