On 2023-08-23 8:15 a.m., Rodolfo Delmonte wrote:
I'm trying to find out whether your message is to be read as a provocative stimulus or literally. Because in the second case I will have to erase the impression I got when we met in a restaurant for the social dinner. You were well informed on the production of the Australian Nobel Prize for literature which you regarded as an outstanding writer. Now you seem to be saying GPT will substitute easily any such human product and statistical counting of character sequences will suffice to generate exquisite stories. Sorry but I'm still strongly on the other side. Just consider the total inability of GPT to cope with sounds and all that concerns poetry....
"Now you seem to be saying GPT will substitute easily any such human product and statistical counting of character sequences will suffice to generate exquisite stories." Uhm. I am saying the exact opposite. The utter domination of statistics is not a good thing, IMO. Ada's posts -- as I understand them -- are meant to alert us all to the dangers (well, figuratively speaking thus far) of the one-track-mind attitude we are witnessing. (-:)
Cheers,
-- Stan Szpakowicz, PhD, DSc, Emeritus Professor EECS, Computer Science, University of Ottawa