Čapek's Newts: An AI Reflection
Recently, I have been re-reading one of the classic books of Czech literature, Karel Čapek’s War with the Newts, and I have been intrigued by some of the parallels between Čapek’s newts and LLMs. Mind you, I am probably highly primed to associate and connect random things to LLMs given how much I read and talk about AI these days (a case of apophenia?). But hear me out! I think we’re on to something. ...