Angie Wang's illustrated essay for the New Yorker, wondering whether her child's early attempts at speech were the same as LLMs, was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize. "A toddler has a life, and learns language to describe it. An L.L.M. learns language but has no life of its own to describe," she writes.
Read On The New Yorker's Website: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/sketchbook/is-my-toddler-a-stochastic-parrot
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