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Speaker to Regression Models 2026-11-07T03:38:00+00:00, by Emma Humphries, from Infinite Wishes 🏳️‍⚧️🚀 When Charlie Warzel wrote “Talking to AI Might Be the Most Important Skill of This Century,” that would make sense if he was writing a story set in P. Djèlí Clark’s “A Dead Djinn of Cairo” universe. The Egypt of that world has a government agency that tries to keep foolish mortals from getting killed when making a wish. This is not that world. What people refer to as ‘AI’ is not aware, nor is it some incarnation of a trickster. It is a model created from data which too often reflects the biased, racist, homophobic world in which the data was collected. The title for this post comes from Larry Niven’s1 “Known Space” stories. The Kzin, a catlike warrior people from his stories, held humans in contempt and the word for translator, in the language of their spacefarers, is literally “speaker to animals.” Prompting a chatbot is not talking to another conscious entity, it’s not even alive.…

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