Why SLAG?
Why build SLAG? Isn't reading lame?
Stories are cool.
source: trust me bro In truth, there are more people who read today than ever before. This is largely due to the fact that:
there are more people now (8 billion +) than any previous century; and,
rising levels of education globally mean more people know how to read than previous generations.
Aside from the fact that there are billions of readers worldwide, reading itself is an enjoyable (and often nourishing) act. If you don't think so, you likely have not yet found an author or story you like. I encourage you to keep looking.
Storytelling is as human as it gets.
Humans have been telling stories for.. well .. forever.
Before writing, oration was the medium of sharing our histories, myths, and traditions.
The advent of writing, and therefore books, gave our stories a more lasting form, though only accessible to the elite. That is, until Gutenberg.
The printing press made books and the stories they hold accessible to the masses. This disruptive technology reshaped our history. Knowledge is one helluva drug.
Similarly, large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the way we think about the world around us.
For the people in the back shouting, "AI stories aren't real stories!" — I hear you. And to a degree, I see your point. I can only imagine that the orators at the time writing was invented felt a similar feeling: 'Books lack the creativity, the pathos, that can only be delivered through oration!' Or the scribes when Gutenberg rolled out his first printers:
'They took our jobs!'
Said another way, the times they are a'changin, and in my humble opinion we will likely be the last generation to pinch our noses at the idea of LLM guided or - gasp! - generated stories.
It does make me wonder, however: if LLMs are a human construction, ingesting human knowledge, then aren't their stories.. human? I'll leave that question for the professionals in the back to decide; moving on.
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