(Temporary?) Change of Address

For the time being, new Sore Eyes content can be found at http://blog.thebeard.org. At some point old content hosted here might be moving over there, or that content might be moved over here. (I realise I should have posted about this weeks ago. More on that as my plans for my web presence evolve.)

A blurry image…

Ted Chiang, writing in the New Yorker (New Yorker link, Archive.org link) finds a neat analogy for what ChatGPT does with the information it was trained on: Think of ChatGPT as a blurry jpeg of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information on the Web, in the same way that… Continue reading A blurry image…