Jaron Lanier on How to Think About LLMs—and Sci-Fi's Role in AI Doom-Talk
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-09
- Jaron Lanier shares how he thinks about LLMs and systems like them doing mathematics.
- He also connects current AI doom-talk directly to the loss of optimism in popular science fiction, arguing that memes originating in sci-fi fundamentally shape discourse in intellectual and tech communities.
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