The “Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?” Is the most creative essay I’ve ever read in the internet. It was emotional, surprising, and so beautiful. Maybe I connected to it so much because of my own toddler, but thanks a lot for the recommendation 🙃
How about both broadening minds and building careers? I taught High School and adult students in a Career Tech center for 22 years and then online for 8 years. Students need to know how to use both their hands and their minds, just because they have to develop what really interests them and how to use their hands and tools. I developed many technicians and quite a few contractors, some of whom now operate rather large companies. One of my granddaughters went in to Human Relations and the other into Nursing. Neither was sure what they really wanted to do until 11th to 13th year in school.
Currently a last year SHS, and am interested in taking Liberal Arts as my College major... but my dad is against it, "too shallow" he said as the bigger the coverage, the shallower it gets.
Imma sent the first phrase of this Substack to my dad. Ty :D
After reading the recommended New Yorker article, it's clear that although we see linguistic phenomena in parrots, LLMs, and toddlers, the underlying mechanisms differ.
For humans, language is a symbolic communication and expression of meaning, grounded in survival and life. This aspect of 'meaning' is missing in both parrots and LLMs.
I've also created a Venn diagram to illustrate this, but can't post it in the comments. If interested, you can click here to view it.
The “Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?” Is the most creative essay I’ve ever read in the internet. It was emotional, surprising, and so beautiful. Maybe I connected to it so much because of my own toddler, but thanks a lot for the recommendation 🙃
And that Venn diagram cracked me up 😂
I love your LOVE your favorite Venn diagram. Thanks for making me laugh!
How about both broadening minds and building careers? I taught High School and adult students in a Career Tech center for 22 years and then online for 8 years. Students need to know how to use both their hands and their minds, just because they have to develop what really interests them and how to use their hands and tools. I developed many technicians and quite a few contractors, some of whom now operate rather large companies. One of my granddaughters went in to Human Relations and the other into Nursing. Neither was sure what they really wanted to do until 11th to 13th year in school.
Currently a last year SHS, and am interested in taking Liberal Arts as my College major... but my dad is against it, "too shallow" he said as the bigger the coverage, the shallower it gets.
Imma sent the first phrase of this Substack to my dad. Ty :D
After reading the recommended New Yorker article, it's clear that although we see linguistic phenomena in parrots, LLMs, and toddlers, the underlying mechanisms differ.
For humans, language is a symbolic communication and expression of meaning, grounded in survival and life. This aspect of 'meaning' is missing in both parrots and LLMs.
I've also created a Venn diagram to illustrate this, but can't post it in the comments. If interested, you can click here to view it.
https://x.com/leeron/status/1735884108302324018?s=20
The TED talk...wow!!! Elon Musk ruling the world...he makes personal vehicles, rocket ships, and satellite comms. He owns X. He is a digital war lord.
Thank you.