Large Language Models As The Tales That Are Sung
A thought-provoking read on LLMs, poetry, the oral tradition, and Gene Wolfe:
"Even if LLMs are made out of poetry, they are incapable of producing poems. Or in Wolfe’s language, both the epic form and LLMs are story, but are incapable of telling stories. That requires the marriage of structure and intention that human mediation provides. LLMs are a kind of composite of the singing of tales, but are not singers, even if we sometimes misconstrue them as such."
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