We don't quite know what to do with language models yet. But...

We don’t quite know what to do with language models yet. But we have some hunches. To me they seem obviously useful as epistemic rubber ducks 🐥 – as things we can query for fuzzy answers, bounce ideas off, and think through problems with. They can help strengthen our own critical thinking and reasoning abilities in the same way a good debate partner does.

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