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Cal Newport

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

to tune that away from being verbose and to just give a table.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Now, I guess you could take its output and then maybe run that through another thing that then strips away the other piece.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It's like, it's possible.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

But I think the anthropomorphized verbosity we see in language models is also, that's kind of the native tongue.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Which is why we still have a lot of chatbots being emphasized and tools that are built upon LLM as the digital brain are still way more scarce than you would imagine outside of maybe computer programming and coding harnesses.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

We just don't have a lot of other examples where we just use the LLM as a general person's digital brain.

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Because I think this verbosity is okay.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Humans can interpret that, but it's not great if the LLM is just a digital brain that's interfacing between you and another computer.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It doesn't need to hear that their idea is great or wants to try to parse the different types of text.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

There's some interesting things going on there about the fundamental nature of these things.

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Well, this is what you don't see in Star Trek is, you know, Captain Kirk or whoever.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I'm going to mix up the episodes here.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

You know, say like, hey, computer, we are approaching Deep Space Nine.

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Prepare docking procedures.

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And computer is like, photon torpedo fired, station destroyed.

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And you're like, well, no, I said we're supposed to dock.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Oh, you're right, Kirk.

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I shouldn't have fired the photon torpedo.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Thank you for holding me accountable, Captain Kirk.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

That was.