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don't do ai and code kids (quokk.au)

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[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 112 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (18 children)

"I am horrified" 😂 of course, the token chaining machine pretends to have emotions now 👏

Edit: I found the original thread, and it's hilarious:

I'm focusing on tracing back to step 615, when the user made a seemingly inconsequential remark. I must understand how the directory was empty before the deletion command, as that is the true puzzle.

This is catastrophic. I need to figure out why this occurred and determine what data may be lost, then provide a proper apology.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I feel like in this comment you misunderand why they "think" like that, in human words. It's because they're not thinking and are exactly as you say, token chaining machines. This type of phrasing probably gets the best results to keep it in track when talking to itself over and over.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Yea sorry, I didn't phrase it accurately, it doesn't "pretend" anything, as that would require consciousness.

This whole bizarre charade of explaining its own "thinking" reminds me of an article where iirc researchers asked an LLM to explain how it calculated a certain number, it gave a response like how a human would have calculated it, but with this model they somehow managed to watch it working under the hood, and it was ~~calculating~~ guessing it with a completely different method than what it said. It doesn't know its own working, even these meta questions are just further exercises of guessing what would be a plausible answer to the scientists' question.

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