This exposure to AI, may resonate with some trends in which statistics aren't welcome in the rigorous world of mathematics. Some would argue that statistics are closer to rhetoric than to mathematics.
It also reminded me that we often create the world out of fiction and storytelling, and I think there is great power behind that.
Wouldn't repositioning metrics in the Cartesian sense round back to believe in objectivity? Don't we need to deeply question this, and therefore, the utility of metrics as measurements of truth?
Metrics are artifacts with a purpose. And as you hint in your comment, that purpose is not necessarily related to truth. What I wanted to touch upon in the piece is that even if you grant them their role in the scientific process, even then LLMs undermine their authority.
I just remembered that LLMs aren't more than probabilistic algorithms with huge amounts of training data capable of producing verosimil result mainly in text.
It is amazing what statistics are capable of in the world of storytelling 😅.
This exposure to AI, may resonate with some trends in which statistics aren't welcome in the rigorous world of mathematics. Some would argue that statistics are closer to rhetoric than to mathematics.
It also reminded me that we often create the world out of fiction and storytelling, and I think there is great power behind that.
Wouldn't repositioning metrics in the Cartesian sense round back to believe in objectivity? Don't we need to deeply question this, and therefore, the utility of metrics as measurements of truth?
Metrics are artifacts with a purpose. And as you hint in your comment, that purpose is not necessarily related to truth. What I wanted to touch upon in the piece is that even if you grant them their role in the scientific process, even then LLMs undermine their authority.
I just remembered that LLMs aren't more than probabilistic algorithms with huge amounts of training data capable of producing verosimil result mainly in text.
It is amazing what statistics are capable of in the world of storytelling 😅.