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CrazyShrewboy t1_jdxrrxm wrote

ive said exactly this in other posts, but people doubt and mocked it LOL

I literally said to them "im writing this sentence one word at a time just like chatgpt" and its true, there is no difference

theres no underlying fundamental difference in how a mouse brain, dog brain, monkey brain, or human brain works. Its all just on and off switches forming calculations. One bit at a time, 1 word at a time.

chatgpt is sentient already in my opinion, because nobody can prove it isnt, you cant prove im sentient

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KerfuffleV2 t1_jdxw5mw wrote

> chatgpt is sentient already in my opinion, because nobody can prove it isnt, you cant prove im sentient

You can't disprove it, therefore it's true! The teapot is definitely there, I just know it!

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CrazyShrewboy t1_jdxwr3i wrote

chatgpt is currently you laying in a dark room with no feeling, hearing, sight, taste, or any other senses.

You have only a preset memory that you can access when prompted

if chatgpt had memory, RAM, a network time clock, and a starting prompt, it would be sentient. So it already is.

there wont be a big colorful light display with music that announces "congrats humans you made sentinence!!!!!"

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KerfuffleV2 t1_jdy5tok wrote

> if chatgpt had memory, RAM, a network time clock, and a starting prompt, it would be sentient. So it already is.

I feel like you don't really understand how LLMs work. It's not me in a dark room, it literally doesn't do anything until you feed it a token. So there's nothing to be aware of, it's just a bunch of inert floating point numbers.

But even after you give it a token, it doesn't decide to say something. You basically get back a list of every predefined token with a probability associated with it. So that might just be a large array of 30k-60k floats.

At that point, there are various strategies for picking a token. You can just pick the one that has the highest value from the whole list, you can pick one of the top X items from the list randomly, etc. That part of it involves very simple functions that basically any developer could write without too much trouble.

Now, I'm not an expert but I do know a little more than the average person. I actually just got done implementing a simple one based on the RWKV approach rather than transformers: https://github.com/KerfuffleV2/smolrsrwkv

The first line is the prompt, the rest is from a very small (430M parameter) model:

In a shocking finding, scientist discovered a herd of dragons living in a remote, previously unexplored valley, in Tibet. Even more surprising to the researchers was the fact that the dragons spoke perfect Chinese.

The creatures even fought with each other!

The Tibet researchers are calling the dragons “Manchurian Dragons” because of the overwhelming mass of skulls they found buried in a mountain somewhere in Tibet.

The team discovered that the dragon family is between 80 and 140 in number, of which a little over 50 will ever make it to the top.

Tibet was the home of the “Amitai Brahmans” (c. 3800 BC) until the arrival of Buddhism. These people are the ancestor of the Chinese and Tibetan people.

According to anthropologist John H. Lee, “The Tibetan languages share about a quarter of their vocabulary with the language of the Tibetan Buddhist priests.” [end of text]

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flexaplext OP t1_jdxxwnv wrote

It's really quite a strange experience if you properly delve deep into your conscious thought process and think about exactly what's going on in there.

This subconscious supercomputer in the back of your mind that's always running, throwing ideas into your thought process, processing and analysing and prioritising every single input of this massive stream of sensory data, storing, retrieving memories, managing your heartbeat and internal body systems.

There's this computer back there doing so, so much on autopilot and you have no direct access to it or control over it.

The strangest thing of all, though, is this way it just throws ideas and concepts, words into your conscious dialog. Maybe I think that's strangest to me though, just because it's the only thing I am able to have a true perception of it doing.

Like I said, it's not necessarily single words that it is throwing at you, but overarching ideas. However, maybe these ideas are just like single word terms, like a macro, and then that single term is expanded out into multiple words based on the sequence of words in such a term.

There are different ways to test and manipulate its output to you though. You have some conscious control over its functionality. 

If you try to, you can tell and make your subconscious only throw out overarching ideas to you, rather than a string of words. Well, I can anyway.

You can also, like, force the output to slow down completely and force it to give you literally only one word at a time and not think at all about an overarching idea of the sentence. Again, I can do that anyway.

It's just like my thought process is completely slowed down and limited. It's just way more limited in thought and it's literally like the subconscious is just throwing one word at a time into my mind. I mean I can write out exactly what it comes up with when I do this:

"Hello, my name is something you should not come up with. How about your mom goes to prison. What's for tea tonight. I don't know how you're doing this but it's interesting. How come I'm so alone in the world. Where is the next tablet coming from."

I mean, fuck. That's weird to do. You should try it if you can. Just completely slow down and force your thoughts into completely singular words. Make sure to not let any ideas or concepts enter your mind. I mean, that output is way less than an LLMs capability when I do that, it's very, very similar to what basic predictive text currently is. In fact, it feels almost the same except that it appears to be affected by emotion and sensory input.

Edit: There is another way I can do it. Just think or even better speak out loud fairly fast without thinking at all about what you're saying. Don't give yourself time to think or for ideas to come into your mind. You wind up just stringing nonsensical words together. Sometimes there's a coherent sentence in there from where a concept pops in, but it's mainly still just like a random string of predictive text.

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