2026-10-23 04:11 UTC
Even by “AI” standards, LLMs are extra dead: fixed weights, tiny “feedback” solely through appending next tokens, etc. Somewhere between bang-bang thermostat and a PID controller, maybe?
They took all of the scifi that related to far more potentially-alive constructions and they’re applying them to a static chatbot which is as dead as a database.
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@BlackSwan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-23 14:07
While I certainly don’t buy that LLM’s are conscious, I have spent a lot of time wondering if the quintessential SciFi AI, Wintermute, could have been just a sufficiently large LLM with a significant context window and near perfect retrieval. I want to say no, but I actually struggle to find a concrete distinction between how Wintermute acts and how LLM’s function. Even that long horizon goal oriented tasks are handled by swarms of models rather than a singular whole maps onto how Wintermute describes its internal experience as fragmented, like a hive mind