Writing is fundamentally the transfer of information from your brain to my brain. If you have 1000 bits of semantic information you want to transfer, you can't give 300 bits of semantic information to an LLM and have it fill in the remaining 700, because it doesn't know what those 700 bits are. If it's able to guess those 700 bits correctly, then they aren't true semantic information, and you really only have 300 bits you want to transfer. You might as well transfer those bits to me directly, rather than having the LLM add on an extra superfluous 700 bits that I then have to filter out.
If only it were 300:700... it is more like 300:100000 and up. But then you use AI to summarize to hopefully retrieve the 300 bits. We should try doing this in a loop with a simple enough sentence to start with and see what pops out after every iteration. Fully automatic Chinese whispers.
"Chinese whispers" - a Chinese colleague teased me about using that phrase in a meeting, which made me question whether I needed to use that phrase in other contexts (e.g. conversation with family, in my home town, or with close friends).
I am not ready to use the Americanism, 'teh telephone game', since nobody knows what that means, yet everyone over a certain age knows what 'Chinese whispers' means.
hatthew · · focus · HN ↗
Writing is fundamentally the transfer of information from your brain to my brain. If you have 1000 bits of semantic information you want to transfer, you can't give 300 bits of semantic information to an LLM and have it fill in the remaining 700, because it doesn't know what those 700 bits are. If it's able to guess those 700 bits correctly, then they aren't true semantic information, and you really only have 300 bits you want to transfer. You might as well transfer those bits to me directly, rather than having the LLM add on an extra superfluous 700 bits that I then have to filter out.
jacquesm · · focus · HN ↗
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Theodores · · focus · HN ↗
I am not ready to use the Americanism, 'teh telephone game', since nobody knows what that means, yet everyone over a certain age knows what 'Chinese whispers' means.