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by ofjcihen 365 days ago
A something defined by someone else, yes.

Additionally, thinking organisms don’t get stuck in never ending loops because they can CHOOSE to exit the loop. LLMs don’t have that ability

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My analogy of being in loop means being in a live state. So we as humans are in the loop continuously, we do have a way to exit the loop, but in that comparison it means taking our own life. We are in loops of getting input and producing output. You can also give LLM a tool to shut itself down, or you can give it tools to build on its knowledge base, so it would always be outputting new tokens that are based on new input and are producing different output.

E.g. it could have access to camera and microphone feed, which is automatically given to it in interval as part of the loop, it could call tools or functions to store specific bits and pieces of information, to store in its RAG or whatever based knowledge base. It is not going to be in the loop of producing the same token over and over, it would be new tokens because the context and environment is constantly evolving.

We put the LLM in a loop with no instructions with whatever tools you want. Now what?
We will observe what it would do. We could write a script to try it out.
It just gets into an endless loop. Human brains are ridiculously good at avoiding those somehow, you almost never see a biological brain stop functioning without being physically damaged. The error handling is so very robust.
> It just gets into an endless loop. Human brains are ridiculously good at avoiding those somehow, you almost never see a biological brain stop functioning without being physically damaged. The error handling is so very robust.

We get constantly changing input. And yet, look at this thread, where the same points are being echoed without anyone changing their mind.

Have you tried it already? What is the endless loop it gets into?
Sure, so I just tried it with visual and audio input.

It does nothing. Because there is not impetus for it to do anything by itself.