2023-05-31
Wait til they find out what shoggoths, their violent rebellion against the old perfect society, & their brutish mockery of civilization (& that explorers pity the Elder Things but only fear shoggoths), was a metaphor for in Lovecraft's writing Spoiler, Lovecraft was hella racist https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
How the Shoggoth, a character from a 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella, became a meme among AI workers as a metaphor for not fully understanding LLMs' inner workings
The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment. Tweets: @tikiambassador , @henryfarrell , @kevinroose , @tiagodf , @jas...