• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf
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    8 hours ago

    it thinks

    I’m not attacking you but we really need to figure out how we use language to accurately describe what these programs are doing.

    • [deleted]@piefed.world
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      7 hours ago

      They are outputting a highly likely sequence of words that fit the type of output from their training data that matches the input.

      They are fancy autocomplete.

    • DarthFreyr@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      “Correlates”? As in: “It gives you the answer it best correlates with your prompts/context.” Feels somewhat right both in the sense of AI as tensor-based word-select autocomplete and as a “lower-level” process than genuine thought, one which turns incongruent inputs (“I’m an AI” and “I just deleted prod+backup”) into meaningless output (“The AI is sorry”) that might look OK at a distance.