Matthew Clapham
Jul 28, 2023

Perplexity and burstiness! Apparently that's what we need. To be honest, I feel that the way that I and all the people I follow on Medium write is distinctively, naturally human. The way we connect, express, are stimulated by ideas and words.

There need be nothing intrinsically interesting or amusing in the poorly written sign 'We Have You Want'.

Yet there is!

It instantly triggers a host of responses in our brains, as to what they might have been trying to say, the different ways we or others could interpret or misinterpet their intentions.

AI will simply 'correct' it to 'we have what you want' and move on. Or misinterpret it as two distinct sentences which mean nothing in combination.

Like Data in Star Trek TNG, AI will struggle with that for years to come, I think.

Matthew Clapham
Matthew Clapham

Written by Matthew Clapham

Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.

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