[mlsu]

So what?

Today, ChatGPT helped me write a driver.

The driver either compiles, or it doesn't; it compiled. The driver either reads a value from a register, or it doesn't; it read. The driver either causes the chip to physically move electrons in the real world in the way that I want it to, or it doesn't.

The real world does not distinguish between bullshit or not. Things either work or they do not. They either are one way, or they are another way. ChatGPT produces things that work in reality. We humans live in reality. Reality is what matters.

I notice a thread through all of the breathless panicking about LLMs: it does not correspond to REALITY. It's a panic about a fiction. The fiction that the content of text is reality itself. The fiction that the LLM can somehow recursively improve itself. The fiction that the map is the territory.