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Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns (futurism.com)
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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

stochastic parrot

A phrase that throws more heat than light.

What they are predicting is not the next word they are predicting the next idea

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    How it functionally works, its the next word / token / chunk a lot more than its an "idea". An idea is even rough to define

    The other relatively accurate analogy is a probabilistic database

    Neither work if you've fallen into anthropomorphising, but they're relatively accurate to architecture and testing for people that aren't too computer literate, far more than the anthropomorphising alternatives at least

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