Quick Introduction We have all been on forums, chats, reddit, discord, youtube, or somewhere and heard “Oh! Model XYZ is AMAZEBALLZ!zomgwtfbbq” then downloaded it (or more likely, some quantized form of it) and said “eww… This sucks!” This post is going to be a rather technical series of experiments to demonstrate the impact of implementation-specific hazards with inference. I will be using the term “reference implementation” to describe the lab that published and offers first-party hosting of ...
  • h0tbeef@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    LLMs cannot fulfill these definitions.

    Try to explain to me how an LLM could fit the definitions of “conscious” or “sentient”.

    If you understood how computers work and also had a firm grasp on the English language, you would understand that there is no way to use either of those words to accurately describe a computer program.

    • SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      36·
      2 days ago

      Yes they can, easily. That doesn’t mean they are sentient though. Just that these are too broad to mean anything.

      Have you ever trained a neural network, or studied how they work? I highly doubt so, and I highly doubt you are the computer omniscient you are pretending to be.

      • h0tbeef@lemmy.zipEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        If you believe an LLM could fulfill either of those definitions then you either don’t understand how an LLM works, or you don’t understand the definitions of those words.