Chris Wilson
@chwilson.bsky.social
Ecosystem ecologist, agronomist, statistical modeler. Dad, husband, gardener, grappler and musician. Currently employed as: Assistant Professor, Agronomy Department, University of Florida.
Really put ‘synthesis’ in quotes because LLMs don’t synthesize. They are fancy autocomplete that generates text with the appearance of synthesis to the extent the training corpus contains results of prior human synthesis.
August 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Really put ‘synthesis’ in quotes because LLMs don’t synthesize. They are fancy autocomplete that generates text with the appearance of synthesis to the extent the training corpus contains results of prior human synthesis.