“But don't worry: you can't make the word-guessing program into a "superintelligence" by shoveling more words into it. That's like betting that if you keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will eventually give birth to a locomotive.”
Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)
on the AI companies’ bluster about LLMs begetting artificial superintelligence.
From this thread: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115978392906108985
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