I enjoyed this conversation between …

I enjoyed this conversation between Margaret Atwood and Katie Drummond. Here’s Margaret on large language models:

That is a subject about which I know very little, except that it’s a crap poet and a pretty bad imitator of me.

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It’s like absolutely every other human tool that we have ever come up with, including fire and language. So it has good news, it has bad news. It’s got stupid consequences that nobody was thinking about and they’re all like that. Name one, and that is what you will see.

So true! She’s such a gem, sharp and funny.