• lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    It literally does have a ‘???’ step to it,

    Okay, then fill in the blank please. What is this step that spontaneously creates sapient and sentient life with perfect mastery of human language that can get really pissed if you’re not nice to it. Sincerely, that is absolutely amazing if true! Especially if it were not planned. Usually something this astounding has to be planned like a moon landing.

    Please forgive everyone’s skepticism but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And the current evidence is far from extraordinary.

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      7 days ago

      Self-supervised learning is the key training step whereby the relationships between concepts are formed in pretraining.

      You might also benefit from reading over this summary from the authors of the widely replicated and expanded upon 2023 paper finding that self-supervised learning in a toy transformer that was only trained on board game moves in notations like ‘a4’ developed a model of the full board and tracked board positions for their own and opponent moves.

      This ability to form a world model at varying fidelities and accuracy depending on the relevance to the training data was a big surprise to most experts in the field at the time, though now more common knowledge.

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        7 days ago

        Neither of those articles mentions sentience nor sapience. And I’m not following how those things leads to sentient/sapient life. What’s being described sounds like a souped-up MENACE matchbox computer.