“..in a disorderly way”..

In one sense LLMs are involved - to the extent that it is assumed that because LLMs are trained to predict the next probable token in a sequence, they are aligned with the sequential nature of DNA. So generating sequences not present in nature by sampling from an underlying probability distribution?

Could be broad bean crop? In Lincolnshire still see vast fields of beans & their white flowers look like this…

Sybil is overjoyed that I had surgery & am not at work for 6 weeks…

Sybil, 14 weeks old… anyone would think there is a pattern in whippet behaviour… (the lovely Ed)

Current view…

& one of the reasons that matters is that critical response requires more than “but your rule one way travel is benefit fraud risk is stupid/inaccurate”. The hackathon DeepMind/Faculty/OpenAI logic is indifferent to accuracy. Everything is a use-case.

HMRC’s Connect system uses ML algorithms. I agree that rules-based data mining also historically had association rules (if, then, else stupidity). These don’t disappear but they find entirely new commercial extractive stupidity.. & it’s not rules based.

This kind? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Or, worse, these are not mistakes from the perspective of machine learning politics of austerity… (errors as productive for targeting, even when it’s a “wrong” target)

Or, government in the age of generative AI.. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

2/ run machine learning on unlabelled data in “task agnostic” way; 3/ indifferent to situated human meaning (e.g. two autistic children experience flying); 4) embedded LLMs on AWS cloud, generate plausible outputs even if wildly inaccurate; 5) zero shot ML = zero shot politics

I’m sorry that you will miss Eamonn’s talk for your dialysis. He would audio record it for you I’m sure…

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