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by fwlr 345 days ago
Some psychologists finetuned a Llama-family LLM on some psychology data - “a data set called Psych-101, which contained data from 160 previously published psychology experiments, covering more than 60,000 participants who made more than 10 million choices in total”, so I guess maybe 10 million tokens?

That part seems to make sense, but I cannot rightly comprehend the confusion that follows.

Some psychology researchers are claiming it has become a model of human cognition? (Because it can imitate the way a psychology study participant answers psychology study questions?)

Other psychology researchers are disputing this by testing its reaction time and digit span memory? (Are they administering an iq test? A cranial nerves exam?)

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Reminds me of Jipi and the Paranoid Chip[1] by Neal Stephenson.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20060830131222/http://www.vanemd...

Well that was a disturbing read...