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This makes me sad. I hoped to see less use of language models in the wild; looks like we&#x27;re heading the other direction.<p>I was recently able to articulate to myself why I dislike language models like GPT-3 so much.<p>Language is fundamentally about <i>communication</i>. I have a mental state, and language lets me share that some of that mental state with another human being. It&#x27;s quite remarkable, and the cornerstone for pretty much every aspect of our lives as social creatures.<p>GPT-3 can generate text that&#x27;s convincingly human-like; it&#x27;s an amazing technical achievement. But (so far, anyway!) it is <i>just</i> that; a generator of plausible text. To borrow a philosophical term, there&#x27;s no &quot;interiority&quot; there.<p>You can see this clearly in GPT-3&#x27;s output; it is at its weakest when writing about the relationships between a set of concepts, or when trying to carry a line of thought or argument through a longer text. This is because there is no underlying _thing_ that is being communicated; no mental model or grounding concept. Just text, generated solely based on plausibility in a given context.<p>So while GPT-3 is truly remarkable in its ability to generate <i>text</i>, it cannot, by definition, <i>communicate</i> (except on the meta level via prompt selection and output curation.)<p>Does the world really need more words but with less communication?