"It's all just matrix multiplications" is the new "love is just chemistry"
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-09-25
- Quoting AP Stylebook's guidance to avoid anthropomorphizing AI systems, Plinz quips that "it's all just matrix multiplications" is becoming the new "love does not exist, you are just experiencing chemistry."
- The jab targets a recurring debate: reductionist language that dissolves AI's thinking/understanding into math may obscure the phenomenon itself, just as chemical reductionism does for love. AP instead recommends describing what a system does, how well it performs, who built it, and who could be affected.
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