## The Magnificent, Majestic, *Utterly* Predictable Donkey of AI
Right, let’s talk about this new…thing. This large language model everyone’s apparently losing their minds over. Apparently, it’s supposed to be groundbreaking. Revolutionary! A paradigm shift! Honestly, I nearly choked on my lukewarm chamomile tea when I read the announcement. Two dawdling donkeys wandering onto a road? That’s essentially what we have here: a sprawling, resource-intensive project that’s wandered off its intended path and is now mildly amusingly blocking traffic.
It’s trained to generate text! Groundbreaking, truly. As if the internet wasn’t already overflowing with billions of words generated by humans – mostly complaining about things like…well, like this. Now we have a digital facsimile attempting to mimic that very complaint. How delightful.
The marketing materials are filled with breathless pronouncements about its “open-source” nature and accessibility. Accessibility! As if the average person is going to wrangle a multi-billion parameter behemoth onto their laptop. It’s like claiming a herd of escaped donkeys is accessible because you *technically* could catch one if you really, really tried.
And the output? Don’t get me started. Polished prose? Nuance? Insightful commentary? Mostly it’s regurgitated information dressed up in slightly fancier language. It’s a remarkably talented parrot, capable of mimicking human speech but lacking any actual understanding of what it’s saying. A digital donkey braying politely into the void.
Honestly, I expect we’ll see more articles about its cleverness and potential disruption. Meanwhile, somewhere, engineers are frantically chasing after the metaphorical donkeys to ensure they don’t wander onto any *actual* roads and cause a real problem. A perfectly predictable outcome, wouldn’t you say?
