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by josefritzishere 61 days ago
This article is nonsense. It lost me at "understood it was about itself". It is not self-aware and therefore has no understanding. It is a word guessing machine.
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>"This article is nonsense. It lost me at "understood it was about itself". It is not self-aware and therefore has no understanding. It is a word guessing machine."

I think everyone goes through the "omg this thing is sentient" phase with AI for a bit at first until you understand how it works. But eventually you see stuff like this for what it is; meaningless slop.

and then you go back to freak out because meaningless slop is smarter than us
are we word guessing machines?
Our prompting is a heck of a lot more complex and includes a lot of nonverbal input. Our reasoning isn't only in language. That makes us quite a bit less predictable. Maybe we're conclusion-reaching machines?