ColumnsThorsteinn Siglaugsson: How the mastery of language may be driving emergent abilities in Large Language Models, and what this means.
Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an Icelandic economist, consultant and writer. Chairman of the Icelandic Free Speech Society. Author: \"From Symptoms to Causes\" (Amazon). Regular contributor to The Daily Sceptic, Conservative Woman and Brownstone Institute.
Thorsteinn Siglaugsson
Are we building a new Tower of Babel?
ColumnsThorsteinn Siglaugsson: Large language models may not only master our language, they may become its masters.
Covid vaccination in Iceland – a failed experiment
ColumnsThorsteinn Siglaugsson: Only 20 lives potentially saved in Iceland by Covid-19 vaccination, while 60-70 may have been lost from it.
The general theory of reality
ColumnsThorsteinn Siglaugsson: The most extreme consequence of the self-identification ideology is pure solipsism, the belief that the individual’s own subjective reality is all there is.
Do we want to get rid of human nature?
ColumnsThorsteinn Siglaugsson: With the increasing power of AI, we are now at the point where outsourcing our thinking is fast becoming a realistic option.
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