@emilymbender
Thank you for this excellent thread!

This style of reporting, breathlessly mimicking the words of the People That (should) Know, always strikes me as fundamentally incurious. LLMs are complex-seeming beasts, ponderous and burdensome, but peeling away the artifice -- and this is something journalists need to relearn how to do, it seems! -- reveals a tool which doesn't even do grade-school math, it just pattern-matches and says, 'this is probably the answer for which you're looking' with no logic involved.

Which, I suppose, is in some small ways not dissimilar to a journalist who gets fed garbage, puts up a puff piece about Sam Altman's 'triumphant return', and expects that it's what the readers and financiers are looking for. No logic or proof necessary, or for that matter actual reporting.