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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?

  • Then, what are LLMs?

    • Library of Babel (Borges)?
      • Tokenisation; only real words appear
    • Subset: books in library of babel containing words and grammatical phrases
      • still pretty useless
    • 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

  • 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.

  • Do characters in the productions have “selves”?

    • Do characters in novels?
      • Lector in fabula / Eco
    • These are simulated. We are looking at a collection of books, remember

  • Creating an agent via prompt engineering

  • Presentation of the self in everyday life (Goffmann)

  • Bonus: what does DAN think about the akashic records simile?