No idea. The person who initially emailed that mailing list address said he'll write about it on his linkedin after the storm and after it's fixed. FWIW I'm not an AT&T customer (or business customer), I just happened to participate in some IOT hackathon they sponsored/hosted 6 or 7 years ago, that's the only way they've ever obtained my email address.
Only 9 unique email addresses have added to the "reply-all" thread within the past couple hours. Don't know if any estimates can be extrapolated from that though.
> some humans actually do write like these newer language models, after all
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say these newer language models actually write like humans? Or is there a subset of the population intentionally trying to write in the way that these language models write.
It seems to have a tendency to write stereotypical preamble-statement-conclusion paragraphs and to repeat itself. The model repeats itself often. It repeats the title and then writes a statement that basically repeats the title and after that it provides the useful nugget. At the end it adds a sentence usually using "overall" as an opener. Overall, the model tends to respond in a
stereotypical format
Sure, you can also say that some language models write like humans - however, even pre-GPT-2, I read several high-schooler's essays that read very much like these ML-generated products, so even if you don't believe that the relationship is transitive, I think you can say that the relationship is true in both directions.
Discovered by Eliza Callahan triggered by a poem in the middle of her novel. (Friend of a coworker)
That poem can be found here: https://durationandthebodyelizacallahan.cargo.site/ - if viewing on mobile you have to Request Desktop Site for some reason, at least on Android it initially shows up as a Lorem Ipsum page
As arguments for the thesis that the tech world needs to embrace the humanities go, an author discovering a bug in a google product by writing a poem is pretty good, if maybe a bit too on the nose.
Perhaps that is the missing link for why tech is so artificial and not humanly. we could use some more art than capitalistic efficiency in the Apple logo
I know you didn't write that poem, but I'm 99% certain the apostrophes in "I thought about my body. It's past. It's present." have no business being there :)
Might be intentional, simultaneously talking about the past and present of a body and also literally that it is past. It is present. It would not be weird to have that kind of wordplay in a poem.
But also this was from an early draft so it could be a mistake.
Honestly my memory is not that good! I remember a few tech visits as they replaced modems, etc, and I eventually got to some “3rd level support person” that said something akin to “oh, that issue again”.
> The Gileadites seized the fords of the Jordan before the Ephraimites arrived. And when any Ephraimite who escaped said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead would say to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,” then they would say to him, “Then say, ‘Shibboleth’!” And he would say, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they would take him and kill him at the fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites.
"Has a non-standard window size" still really narrows the search space, and there's still your desktop resolution that might be super unique if you have a laptop and a desk monitor at an offset.
