> Seeing these quite disparate tasks being tamed under one unlikely roof, we have to ask – what other difficult problems can simply be transcribed into text and asked to an oracular software intelligence? McIlroy must be smiling somewhere.
This quote gave me pause about the entire article. It sounds like they're talking about some long gone philosopher, but according to Wikipedia, Douglas McIlroy, while old, is still kicking [0], and might be able to provide his own impression on the idea that large language models have any relation to the Unix philosophy, without anyone projecting their own beliefs onto him.
This quote gave me pause about the entire article. It sounds like they're talking about some long gone philosopher, but according to Wikipedia, Douglas McIlroy, while old, is still kicking [0], and might be able to provide his own impression on the idea that large language models have any relation to the Unix philosophy, without anyone projecting their own beliefs onto him.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McIlroy