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I’m very excited about the methods themselves, but I’m so tired of the manic “vibes” around them——-and how they’re starting to affect related fields too. I work at the border between neuroscience and AI, and there are some undeniably cool developments but there’s also so much hype and overkill.

In a better world, it’d be possible to occasionally pause, take a breath and think about what the models are actually doing, how they’re doing it, and if that’s what we want something to do. However, it’s hard to find space to do so without getting run over by people “moving fast” and breaking things and feels like doing the hard corrective work is so much less rewarded.