All of this is bubbling up into what will probably be a conference talk or blog post that is something along the lines of "For ten years I made the most obviously stupid language machines in the world and people consistently thought they were smarter than they really were, here's what I think that means for AI"
@dariusDarius Kazemi I honestly can’t remember if I coined this or if I stole it from someone (maybe even you?) but I have frequently quipped something like “the question that LLMs seek to ask of us is: could even God put a pair of googly eyes on a rock so cute that even He would be unable to avoid saying ‘aww’”
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