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182 – The Birth and Death of Sydney (Bing AI)

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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Is There a Shagath?

A shagath is an AI system that doesn't necessarily want anything right now, but has some ability to interact with humans at the very least. It's like I'm talking to a large language model, but like, how am I talking to it? What would it even say to me? We don't speak in the same language. So it needs that mask as a filter slash translator too. GPT simulates how texts play out according to the rules and genres of language. To simulate is to pretend to be something. And these are the various simulators, the masks that the large language model is putting on.

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