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The “Stochastic Parrot” simile has been the most successful and least enlightening description of an LLM.
- Parrots producing novel grammatical sentences?
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Then, what are LLMs?
- Library of Babel (Borges)?
- Tokenisation; only real words appear
- Subset: books in library of babel containing words and grammatical phrases
- Subset: set of all possible books, stories, conversations, that mankind could have or will ever write or utter
- and it’s searchable! we have Rudolf Steiner-level access!
stochastic parrot akashic record
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How to use the Akashic Record
- Don’t try to deceive it: you’ll only deceive yourself
- gary marcus looking at you
- Start a story, honestly.
- The completion is taken from one of the books which contain your initial phrase.
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Do characters in the productions have “selves”?
- Do characters in novels?
- These are simulated. We are looking at a collection of books, remember
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Creating an agent via prompt engineering
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Presentation of the self in everyday life (Goffmann)
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Bonus: what does DAN think about the akashic records simile?