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An LLM. Not a brain simulation, but mimics the text outputs of brain activity quite well just by parsing text. Turns out that like getting an Englishman to play
by notahacker 3y ago
An LLM. Not a brain simulation, but mimics the text outputs of brain activity quite well just by parsing text. Turns out that like getting an Englishman to play bagpipes, you can get an LLM to write as if it's angry or drunk or horny
(A corollary of a sufficiently large text learning model generating convincingly angry outputs based on pure word association is that you can't trust an attempt to build a long running process with adrenaline and cortisol analogues has adequately simulated emotional state just because the communications module writes convincingly angry responses)
So it's literally the inverse of "no true Scotsman". We don't have Scotsmen not doing things that all "true Scotsmen" are supposed to do, we have "definitely not Scotsmen" passing benchmarks for Scottishness (in a world in which Scotland itself is only an aspiration)