“The collapse of language happened around that time. Already words increasingly lost their meaning and history, texts became more and more repetitious and language became solely a means for communication. But this process was then greatly exacerbated by language models that step by step replaced the process of writing. At last, humans altogether stopped expressing themselves by means of language.”
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The boundary between real and artificial text can no longer be maintained. There is ultimately no reliable way to distinguish whether a text is “human” or “synthetic”. Once a text is written, it no longer belongs to us, at least not in a philosophical sense. What remains distinctly human is not the text but the act of writing, and the act of reading and understanding. The more we intensify these acts, the more fully our humanness emerges.
Published a new version of Selmr, a boutique NLP library written in Rust. Selmr provides an experimental way to create and use explainable multi-word embeddings that can be used in a range of NLP applications. A Python wrapper built with PyO3 is included and published on PyPi.org.
“In just a few centuries they burned all plants and trees that had ever existed on earth.”
Reading λόγος when my colleague sent some new logos for our team.