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Are LLMs "Alien" Digital Species? Built? Grown? Or What? Debunking the AI Hype
In this episode of Philosophy Programs and Prompts, Casey Hart ( @OntologyExplained ) and Carl Brown( @InternetOfBugs ) tackle the wild narratives surrounding artificial intelligence. Are Large Language Models really a "new digital species" or "alien intelligences" that are grown rather than built?Casey and Carl break down the economic speculation driving the AI space, address the hype from figures like Mustafa Suleiman and Nate Soares, and strip away the sensational metaphors. Carl explains how neural networks actually operate—comparing LLMs to compressed search indexes rather than…
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