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There’s no planning, no reason. It’s all ‘what word is next…’ I found Stephen Wolframs explanation helpful. He has a YouTube video version which I enjoyed too

• zeven7 4y ago
  It is wild that a process like that can generate working code. Humans speak their words in order, but they don't write their code in order. Why would writing code in order work?
  • flangola7 4y ago
    With GPT-4 this process also allows it to understand what is inside a graphical image and talk intelligently and coherently about it. Next token prediction produces the most head exploding emergent effects.
• goldfeld 4y ago
  If we get a bit quantum (or an act of God for some), then backtracking could happen by collapsing the dead-ends and "changing" history to stay with what turns out to be the solid plan. Could emergent conscience on AI's neurons do the planning and reasoning that it rather seems to be doing but ML experts will say it is not? If our conscience could by any chance reside not in the electrical currents of the wetware, could AI's reason also not reside in tokens? Is there some mysterious process possible to be taking place?
• resters 4y ago
  It seems that the output feels reasoned because of the reasoning implicit in language patterns. Which is enough to write code and essays, apparently.
  • goldfeld 4y ago
    N.B. to self: study more Foucault to grasp this.