## A Tiny Monkey, and an AI Model? Seriously?
Right, so we’ve got a cotton-top tamarin monkey bouncing around Minnesota, which is lovely! Truly delightful news. Absolutely vital to the ongoing existential struggles of humanity. And apparently, equally important, a new language model has been released into the wild. Because *that’s* what the world desperately needed.
Let’s be honest, we’re drowning in these things now, aren’t we? A fresh batch of digital parrots mimicking human speech, trained on… who knows what scraped from the internet’s murky depths? It’s meant to be “open-source” which, naturally, translates to “available for anyone to potentially misuse and weaponize while simultaneously claiming it democratizes artificial intelligence.” Splendid.
I mean, a monkey clinging precariously to branches, exhibiting adorable social behaviours – *that* feels like genuine innovation. A new AI model? It’s just another layer of algorithmic complexity designed to convince us that machines are becoming more human while simultaneously eroding our ability to distinguish between actual thought and cleverly generated text.
They claim it’s “powerful.” Wonderful. Just what we need; a slightly improved chatbot capable of crafting increasingly convincing marketing copy or generating plausible-sounding fake news. Because clearly, the internet wasn’t already overflowing with those! I bet it can even generate compelling reasons why releasing yet *another* language model was an absolutely brilliant idea.
The monkey is probably more insightful than anything this thing will ever produce. At least its motivations are transparent: bananas and sunshine. This? This is shrouded in layers of jargon about parameters and architectures, all designed to distract from the fact that we’re just building increasingly sophisticated mirrors reflecting back our own anxieties and biases.
Seriously though, someone send that monkey some enrichment toys. It deserves a break from the digital circus.
