[epigramx]

It will happen, as long as people don't get language models are a glorified google search. They predict what they should say based on what they read.

If what the read is nonsense then they will predict nonsense.

They are basically glorified parrots.

[Terr_]

> They predict what they should say based on what they read.

There's so much anthropomorphization in the air in these debates, that I worry even this statement might get misinterpreted.

The text generator has no ego, no goals, and is not doing a self-insert character. The generator extends text documents based on what it has been initialized with from other text documents.

It just happens to be that we humans have purposely set up a situation where the document looks like one where someone's talking with a computer, and the text it inserts fits that kind of document.

[IAmGraydon]

Yep. As I said in another post, they’re human simulators. It looks and sounds enough like a human that it’s tricking people into believing in this illusion of intelligence or intent. I have to imagine the very smart people at OpenAI and Anthropic understand this, and I think a lot of these reports about apparent sentience are being released to push the hype wave and generate investment before the truth becomes apparent to everyone.