What can stop the AI apocalypse? — Grammar. Yes, only grammar.
The sociological/psychological fallout of AI is not decades away: right here, right now, we are watching in slow-motion the major meltdown of our shared sense of reality. The only thing that can save civilization from utter destruction? Basic English grammar. Hear me out, guys.
38 min readApr 27, 2023
Part One. Introducing the idea: “If the disease stems from a large language out of whack, the solution is grammar writ large”
As my friends Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin of the Center for Humane Technology (CHT) explain in their April 9th YouTube presentation, the AI revolution is moving much too fast for, and proving much too slippery for, conventional legal and regulatory responses by humans and their state power.
1.1 What Large Language Models bring
Crucially, these two idealistic Silicon Valley renegades point out, in an accessible manner, exactly what has made the recent jump in AI capacity possible:
- The discovery that AI can treat language as probability, and from there…