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Debates about Large AI Models revolve around their intelligence or its lack. It would be more useful to see them as a new cultural and social technology that allows us to harness unmanageably complex human-made information — à la markets and democracies. A product’s price or an election result are incomplete, selective but useful measures of large amounts of individual knowledge and actions

Debates about Large AI Models revolve around their intelligence or its lack. It would be more useful to see them as a new cultural and social technology that allows us to harness unmanageably complex human-made information — à la markets and democracies. A product’s price or an election result are incomplete, selective but useful measures of large amounts of individual knowledge and actions

https://henryfarrell.net/large-ai-models-are-cultural-and-social-technologies/