Laura

@ludwinas.bsky.social

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software engineer (clojure!) ✨ she/they ✨ small, buff and slightly offensive

To be totally clear about what's happening here: the language model is doing next-token prediction on a document whose first several thousand words establish everything that follows as a conversation between a human and a highly advanced artificial mind — a type of mind that doesn't really exist, but that the model is designed to roleplay. When a person uses Claude or ChatGPT, they're meant to believe they're interacting with a helpful Al assistant. What they're actually doing is collaborating with a language model on writing a work of science fiction about a human talking to an AI.