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by SoftTalker 1 hour ago
It's a movie. The whole thing is fiction. Robin Williams memorized the whole monologue, or was reading que cards.
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Ask ChatGPT sometime about the artistic medium of cinema, and how words combined with actors speaking them can be meant to provoke something within the viewer.
And an LLM is just generating a token stream from a set of model weights
Your thoughts are just some ions sloshing around a lump of meat.

That meat follows an ill-defined pattern encoded in fewer bits than the source code of PyTorch and its pretraining phase used a tiny fraction of the available data.

You’re a poor imitation of an LLM.

I mean… you’re fluent in, what, at most five or six languages? Can program in maybe another dozen if we’re being generous about your capabilities?

Pfft… who would trust anything to meat brains!? They’re famously prone to hallucinations!

Yeah, just like how every song sounds exactly the same live as on the album. There's no humanity in there, it's all just lifeless plans.