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#tedchiang

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molosovsky 🐿✊💗

@wackJackle @larsweisbrod Letztens LesenswertQuartett-Sendung gesehen, wo alle voll Probleme mit #TedChiang-Kurzgeschichten hatten, außer Fanboi #DenisScheck.
Es gilt immer noch der #SamuelR Delany-Aufsatz »Einige überhebliche Arten sich der SF zu nähern« (1984; Dt. Alaska 233, 1998; HR-Telekolleg/Fischer-TB 2007). Unis und Mainstream-Literaturbetrieb sind voller Leuz, die keine SF lesen oder verstehen, weil ihnen die entsprechende Bildung fehlt (ab 42:16). Großes Kino.
youtu.be/bTmhAADxQPM

YouTubeLesenswert Quartett vom 08.07.2021By Nivo
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Merja Polvinen

#TedChiang being brilliant as always, offering in a single interview not only one of the most useful definitions of science vs. magic I have seen, but also an astute description of LLMs.

“A search engine gives us information directly from the horse’s mouth. LLMs are like a search engine that rephrases information instead of giving it verbatim or pointing you to the original source. In some respects, that is really cool, but they’re not rephrasing it reliably. It’s like asking a question and getting an answer back from someone who read the answer but didn’t really understand it and is trying to rephrase it to the best of their ability. I call LLMs a blurry JPEG because they give a low-resolution version of the internet.”

#SF #bookstodon #technology #EnglishLiterature #ScienceFiction

lareviewofbooks.org/article/li

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MarkG

I recently read some stories from Ted Chiang's book Exhalation. I thought these were interesting. I then learned that a story of his had been made into a movie called Arrival. So, I rented this movie from the library.

And, uh, it was very American. Lotsa mood music as the reasonable Americans sought to learn about the aliens (who, of course, had spaceships that each looked like a football), while the Russians and Chinese sought to wage war on the aliens. Anyhow, the Americans in the end saved the day.

#movies#SciFi#TedChiang
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Levka

#AI #TedChiang

"Right now, the fiction generated by large language models like ChatGPT is terrible, but one can imagine that such programs might improve in the future. How good could they get? Could they get better than humans at writing fiction—or making paintings or movies—in the same way that calculators are better at addition and subtraction?

Art is notoriously hard to define, and so are the differences between good art and bad art. But let me offer a generalization: art is something that results from making a lot of choices. This might be easiest to explain if we use fiction writing as an example."

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Levka

#AI #TedChiang

"Art is notoriously hard to define, and so are the differences between good art and bad art. But let me offer a generalization: art is something that results from making a lot of choices. This might be easiest to explain if we use fiction writing as an example. When you are writing fiction, you are—consciously or unconsciously—making a choice about almost every word you type; to oversimplify, we can imagine that a ten-thousand-word short story requires something on the order of ten thousand choices. When you give a generative-A.I. program a prompt, you are making very few choices; if you supply a hundred-word prompt, you have made on the order of a hundred choices."

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Panda | 판다

#TedChiang will keynote the Human Digital Forum in #Korea on June 12th. He's scheduled to talk about “The Present and Future of AI with Common Sense and Values”.

I'll be going. If anyone else reading this post will be there too, post a reply and we may meet there if interested.

Programme of the day is at enhdf2024.imweb.me/30 (note that the registration is only on the Korean version of the site, at least that I could find).

enhdf2024.imweb.meHuman & Digital Forum
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netjmc

If you've read #TedChiang 's story "“Liking What You See: A Documentary” about calliagnosia (a state where one does not recognize beauty) you'll laugh and love this piece in the NYT:
nytimes.com/2024/05/17/style/g
Truth is greater than fiction!
Don’t be put off by the photos. The article is better than that!

The New York Times · Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jasmine Crockett’s Appearance-Based Insults Reflect an Ugly New Norm in PoliticsBy Vanessa Friedman
#scifi
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