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LLMs didn't feel. They're a very complicated graph that connects pieces of words and their probability to be near other pieces of words.
A graph which was trained off the dregs of Internet forums. A lot of people say shitty things in the Internet, so those responses are heavily weighted in it's probability matrix
You mean a graph of connections between neurons, right? Like your brain? Also trained off internet forums?
All I'm getting from this conversation is that you don't have a good argument for your own capacity for feeling. Prove to Me that you can feel, so I can be reassured you're not biased.
No I don't mean that. It's not the graph that matters in a graph of neurons, that's just the representation of the actual thing. But that's all the is with the LLM.
If thoughts are made of information, which seems to Me a logical assumption, then a mathematical operation which reproduces the function of a neural network should be just as capable of thought as the neural network itself. And if the math is accurate, it should think exactly the same things.
It's not reproducing the function of a neural network, though. It's mapping pieces of words being near other pieces of words. That's it. Stop attributing extra shit to a big spreadsheet
Nah, LLMs are actually artificial neural networks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
See? (Does the floss)
Not any more than a picture of you is an artificial simulation of you. It only looks like it. It doesn't matter what they call it, it's not a network of neurons or things that even resemble them in function.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/artificial-intelligence/large-language-model-llm/
It's a neural network. Default dances