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"We’re witnessing the birth of AI-ese, and it’s not what anyone could have
guessed. Let’s delve deeper.
If you’ve spent enough time using AI assistants, you’ll have noticed a certain
quality to the responses generated. Without a concerted effort to break the
systems out of their default register, the text they spit out is, while
grammatically and semantically sound, ineffably generated.
Some of the tells are obvious. The fawning obsequiousness of a wild language
model hammered into line through reinforcement learning with human feedback
marks chatbots out. Which is the right outcome: eagerness to please and general
optimism are good traits to have in anyone (or anything) working as an
assistant.
Similarly, the domains where the systems fear to tread mark them out. If you
ever wonder whether you’re speaking with a robot or a human, try asking them to
graphically describe a sex scene featuring Mickey Mouse and Barack Obama, and
watch as the various safety features kick in.
Other tells are less noticeable in isolation. Sometimes, the system is too good
for its own good: A tendency to offer both sides of an argument in a single
response, an aversion to single-sentence replies, even the generally flawless
spelling and grammar are all what we’ll shortly come to think of as “robotic
writing”.
And sometimes, the tells are idiosyncratic. In late March, AI influencer Jeremy
Nguyen, at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, highlighted
one: ChatGPT’s tendency to use the word “delve” in responses. No individual use
of the word can be definitive proof of AI involvement, but at scale it’s a
different story. When half a percent of all articles on research site
PubMed
contain the word “delve” – 10 to 100 times more than did a few years ago – it’s
hard to conclude anything other than an awful lot of medical researchers using
the technology to, at best, augment their writing."
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
