Postscript AI

When I finished writing my last blog post I started to wonder what it would look like if I had asked an LLM-based AI to write it. I have little doubt it would have been a mishmash of other people’s stolen thoughts, perhaps along with stuff the AI just made up. Even if I had given the AI the subheadings I still cannot imagine any way it would look anything like my thoughts. Perhaps I could have used AI to find the links I used to add documentation to my thoughts, but I would still need to read them all to see if they were appropriate making it no better, likely worse, than just using a search engine to find the links.

Of course the LLM versions of AI are not designed to actually write thoughtful articles but they may be able to create “content” that looks like someone wrote it the same way people steal Wikipedia articles (accounting for the multitude of identical articles all over the web) just to get clicks to ads.

The whole basis of LLM-based AI seems to be based on turning quantity into quality, as if putting more more garbage in will get you better garbage coming out, but it’s still just GIGO and certainly has nothing to do with intelligence.

With their high water and energy consumption LLMs seem like a pretty wasteful way to just create words strung together. Just give monkeys some keyboards instead.