Hi Joel! Excited to see you jump on the Substack train. I would just like to say, I think that you are right about GPT-3, but you are reading the wrong books. The right book to read is Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine, by R.A. Lafferty. It is a surprisingly up-to-the-moment take on "artificial intelligence" and computational linguistic creativity, in its own bizarre way. It was published as "pulp" in the early 1970s but is (in my humble opinion) also a great work of literature. It is out of print, but PDFs are out there (hit me up if you are interested).
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Hi Joel! Excited to see you jump on the Substack train. I would just like to say, I think that you are right about GPT-3, but you are reading the wrong books. The right book to read is Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine, by R.A. Lafferty. It is a surprisingly up-to-the-moment take on "artificial intelligence" and computational linguistic creativity, in its own bizarre way. It was published as "pulp" in the early 1970s but is (in my humble opinion) also a great work of literature. It is out of print, but PDFs are out there (hit me up if you are interested).