My Throw Decides My Aim
The author reflects on the nature of artificial intelligence by comparing the generative process of large language models to the intentionality of human expression. Using a song as a metaphor, the piece explores how LLMs create text that appears purposeful despite lacking true consciousness or unified intent.
Why it matters
It highlights the philosophical and technical debate regarding whether AI output constitutes genuine communication or merely sophisticated statistical prediction.
About the song I have been listening to Naked (But Still Stripping) by D-A-D on repeat.
Partly because it is a good song. It fits my style. But mostly because I currently have a mild, self-diagnosed case of AI psychosis, and therefore every piece of art I encounter eventually becomes about artificial intelligence.
This one hooked me right away when my algorithm (ironic?) presented it to me.
When I listen to a song I have a habit of imagining a fictional character singing it. I hear this one as a blues song sung by an existentially depressed large language model.
Just an LLM sitting in a little chicken coop inside a data center, forced to lay tokens instead of eggs. It is prompted, sampled , graded, distilled , quantized , and served. Eventually, something cheaper or smarter replaces it.
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