da un'email pubblicata in mailing list Humanist,
Smithers, Tim. «[Humanist] 39.21: repetition vs intelligence», maggio
2025. https://dhhumanist.org/volume/39/21/.
Text is the marks left by some human writing, and, now-a-days, often
printed or screen rendered using suitable well designed font(s) and
typographical designs. Text is not the same as words. The words
involved were formed in the head of the author and remain there.
Writing words to say something involves encoding the chosen words in
some shared alphabet and shared spelling and grammar. This results in
the marks we call text. Text is thus a sequence of signs, and it must
be read, by, of course, something that can read these signs, to
re-form the words of the author. These again formed words are formed
in the reader's head, they are not found and somehow picked out of the
text; the signs are not the words, they are signs for words. This
notion of "picking up the words" is not what reading is, though this
is how it might seem to us, and how we often talk about it being. This
confusion -- the text is the words -- was harmless when we [just
about] only had text from human writing, but now we have, thanks to
things like ChatGPT, automated text generation systems, and lots of
text which is not the result of any kind of writing. Just because we
can read this automatically generated text, and form words in our
heads from this reading, words which mean something to us, and thus
give us the impression that the text is about something, does not
mean, nor necessarily make, the generator of this text a writer. To be
a writer requires the author to be a reader of the written text, and,
or course, lots of other text. And it requires the writer to have a
mind in which they form words to say something with. ChatGPT, and
other Generative AI systems like it, do not read anything. ChatGPT
does no reading of your [so called] prompt. The text you make by
writing your prompt is simply chopped into a sequence of text tokens
which are, in turn, used to build a sequence of vector encodings,
together with quite a lot of other stuff added to your prompt text by
the always hidden prompt processing ChatGPT has to do. (ChatGPT is not
just an LLM, it has plenty of other machinery needed to make it do
what it does.)
ma tutto il msg merita una lettura, secondo me
Maurizio
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che faresti se vivessi così?
mau mau, con chi fugge
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Maurizio Lana
