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Ryszard Szopa

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Ryszard Szopa's personal blog at szopa.medium.com covers ai and startups. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ryszard Szopa's Medium posts, including one about teaching ChatGPT to invent a language to speak with his son. Commenters cite it as evidence about what LLMs can learn.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. LLMs don't just regurgitate examples, but the have some internal model of the world and can learn new things. See this example: https://szopa.medium.com/teaching-chatgpt-to-speak-my-sons-i... . A sophisticated enough LLM should be able to read a documentation and learn a language faster than a human programmer, but we're nowhere near that stage yet. Aside, this is not going to stop people learning and using a langua…

    Comment linking /teaching-chatgpt-to-speak-my-sons-invented-language-9d109c0a0f05

    on “Nue: A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative”
  2. Submitted Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Here's one: https://szopa.medium.com/teaching-chatgpt-to-speak-my-sons-i... Here's another https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/i-taught-chatgpt-to-inv... both found via google: https://www.google.com/search?q=using+chatgpt+to+invent+a+la...

    Comment linking /teaching-chatgpt-to-speak-my-sons-invented-language-9d109c0a0f05

    on “The Problem with LLMs”
  4. Submitted Is your startup's technology defensible? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted AI Self-Improvement: Taking Constitutional AI Further as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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