An Elixir of Production, Not of Craft – Pixel Envy

An Elixir of Production, Not of Craft – Pixel Envy

Greg Storey begins this piece with a well-known quote from Plato’s “Phaedrus”, in which the invention of writing is decried as “an elixir not of memory, but of reminding”. Storey compares this to a criticism of large language models, and writes: Even though Plato thought writing might kill memory, he still wrote it down. But this was not Plato’s thought — it was the opinion of Socrates expressed through Thamus. Socrates was too dismissive of th…