Douglas Hofstadter
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Hofstadter is a cognitive and computer scientist who studies the self, consciousness, analogy-making and creativity.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 15 Feb 1945, New York City (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Stanford, mathematics with distinction (1965); PhD in physics, University of Oregon (1975) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Career: Indiana University from 1977; University of Michigan from 1984; back at Indiana from 1988 (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Today's large language models are repellent and threatening to humanity (opens korrents.com)
“I am profoundly troubled by today’s large language models, such as GPT-4. I find them repellent and threatening to humanity, partly because they are inundating the world with fakery, as is exemplified by the piece of…”
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Large language models do not think up original ideas; they rehash what they ingested (opens korrents.com)
“Large language models, although they are astoundingly virtuosic and mind-bogglingly impressive in many ways, do not think up original ideas; rather, they glibly and slickly rehash words and phrases “ingested” by them…”
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LLM output that looks convincing often falls apart on careful analysis (opens korrents.com)
“At first glance, the products of today’s LLM’s may appear convincing and true, but one often finds, on careful analysis, that they fall apart at the seams.”
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Today's large language models are repellent and threatening to humanity (opens korrents.com)