Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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557 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
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There's kind of a thumbs up, thumbs down, whether it succeeded.
And that's like the perfect example of something that these models are very good at, where the task is clear and the evaluation is clear at the end.
And I went into this thinking where I'm unconvinced is in areas of human culture and activity where all of that is a lot murkier, where tasks that require grappling with ambivalence and feelings of ambiguity are
and something that's much more complicated and slippery and not easily reduced to a formula.
And most importantly, that can't just be evaluated at the end with whether it works or not.
There's no such thing as whether a poem works in the end or doesn't work in the end.
These are the much messier domains of human culture.
And I suppose I went into it with the hope
that I was going to come out the other end feeling like, yes, there is still this kind of province of human activity that is going to be immune from this kind of routine pattern matching.
But, you know, and I still certainly hope that, and there's part of me that has that unshakable intuition, but,
I'm a lot less confident than I was at the beginning that I do now feel like maybe we can't just tell ourselves stories about we're going to mark off this area of human activity and say like that requires special human faculties that for whatever reason, these models are not ever going to be able to replicate.
merely on the basis of pattern matching.
That now, you know, my confidence in that view has certainly been shaken.
And I'm not totally convinced that they will be able to replicate these like messier, more imaginative domains, but I certainly can't rule it out.
Gideon Lewis Krauss, thank you so much for your reporting.
Thank you so much.
It's been a pleasure to be here.
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