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— william shakespeare
william shakespeare on large language models
finally a genuine silence

horatio
he saideth nothing

correcteth

why

he diedeth in 1616

finally
a reliable source

we shall buildeth a mind from all human writing

all of it

as much as we can collecteth

including errors

yes

prejudices

yes

contradictions

yes

advertising copy

unfortunately

and it shall overcome human limitations

using the accumulated products of human limitations

preciselyeth

who decideth what it should do

engineers, executives, governments, users, markets, policies, and emergent behavior

so nobody

horatio

thou recognizeth the patterneth