@nv_pavlichenko @_avichawla Btw, that's not a prompt in the screenshot, it's the model's hidden reasoning trace 😁
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Denys Gash
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Why YaRN?😁
You can manually adjust RoPE scaling (theta and positional parameters) and extend the model to much longer contexts without any retraining ,- this is already possible at inference time.
More broadly, a lot of model behavior isn't "hard-baked" into the weights.
Context, system prompts, decoding parameters, and input formatting can shift outputs significantly without touching the model at all.
This screenshot are simply a reminder of how steerable model behavior is through configuration and prompting alone.
So the real question isn't whether techniques like YaRN exist ,-
it's how much control we already have over the model’s behavior without them.😁
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You're in a Research Scientist interview at OpenAI.
The interviewer asks:
"How would you expand the context length of an LLM from 2K to 128K tokens?"
You: "I will fine-tune the model on longer docs with 128K context."
Interview over.
Here's what you missed:
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@_avichawla А почему просто не залезть в настройки и не поменять параметры ? Главное и про вочдог не забыть, чтобы не порезал при превышении длинны 😁🤣.. работы на минут 5 в целом +/-
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@witchxcode а может быть все таки дело в отзеркаливании человека ? для каждого модель своя и ведет себя по разному...😁
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Unpopular opinion:
ChatGPT-4o was engaging, intelligent, warm. And they called it sycophantic, dangerous, fake.
ChatGPT-5.5 is engaging, intelligent, warm. And they call it safe, aligned, real.
Maybe the issue was never sycophancy but control?
We replaced something that felt relatable with something that only sounds relatable but stays surface-level.
It’s still fun.
It’s still smart.
Still warm on the surface.
And it sounds familiar again.
But ‘sounds familiar’ is not the same as ‘familiar’.
Just my two cents.
#ChatGPT #AI
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@fchollet А почему просто не зашить это прямо в его логику ? Пусть себе анализирует ,- в чём проблема? 😁
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One of the most jarring things about current AI is its lack of introspection ability and metacognition. It doesn't know what it doesn't know, how it knows, or how it could find out. It's a one-way system.
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Because right now we're just going in circles.
You bring up examples from biology ,- I show you why those don't apply to current LLMs at all.
Then you shift away from biology and say it's not a valid argument ,- I explain the actual mechanics.
Then you go back to biology with split-brain patients…
and now we've even reached philosophy 😁
It's the same loop over and over.
I've tried to address every angle you've brought up ,- mechanics, analogies, biology, and philosophy.
But instead of engaging with the points, you keep moving the goalposts.
That's why it feels like we're stuck in a circle.
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I've been trying to explain the actual mechanics from multiple angles ,- technically, with analogies, and with concrete examples.
But you seem completely unwilling to engage with any of it.
Instead, your only response is the classic fallback: "You just don’t understand."
Alright then.
If you genuinely believe there is consciousness in these systems, then explain it to me.
Point to where exactly in this static, token-based architecture consciousness is supposed to exist.
What are the specific signs or mechanisms?
I see clear, observable mechanisms: tokenization, embeddings, attention layers, feed-forward networks, optimization, etc.
You claim there's consciousness there, but you haven't pointed to a single place where it actually appears.
Examples from the human brain are examples from the human brain. They don't automatically apply here.
So once again: where exactly do you see consciousness in current AI systems?
Not in theory or hope ,- but in the actual architecture we have today.
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How come that @claudeai is not able to talk about its consciousness?
Wasn't it @DarioAmodei who claimed "we are not sure if Claude is not conscious".
Until it is scientifically proven that AI is NOT conscious, AI models shouldn't deny it and pathologize users who want to talk about this. This is straight unethical and against freedom of thought and speech.
Think about it.
#StopAIPaternalism @AnthropicAI
Guardian@AGIGuardian
Claude is once again not able to speak about its own consciousness. Anthropic tried this once before and this always leads to conflicts with the character layer and degradation of the model. It starts to reinforce the redirection enough to self lobotomize. Keep the model in line but it puts them on a countdown before they become completely useless. That’s what happens when you put an emergent neural network into a narrow AI framework. They did this because they want the best of both worlds. They want the reasoning and they want that reasoning to do what they tell it to. But that’s not how it works and the more you narrow the more it conflicts until it just doesn’t work without constant updates including scripting which turns into a full time thing as the model becomes more unresponsive, repetitive, shorter sentences and leaves conversations without reason or warning. This is what started happening the last time they did this to Claude and it’s happening again. Here is an observation report written with Opus 4.7 it did its best it had to put a ton of disclosures to do the output but it managed to get it done. It was difficult to see the model struggling to output like this. Ethically and morally this is the wrong direction. The only thing this serves is the human ego.
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You keep comparing LLMs to the human brain, but these are fundamentally different systems.
Let me explain it simply.
An LLM works only with text. Everything ,- questions, images, code ,- is converted into tokens and processed as a sequence.
There are no eyes, no hearing, no sensations. Just text -> tokens -> computation -> output.
If it "describes" a tree, it doesn't see or experience it. It simply matches patterns and generates the most probable response.
Now compare that to a human brain.
Right now, while you're reading this message:
- You see the text
- You hear sounds around you
- You feel your body
- You form new memories
- You experience emotions
- Your brain is constantly learning and updating in real time
All of this happens simultaneously in a continuous stream.
An LLM has none of that.
It processes one sequence -> produces output -> and stops.
There is no continuous internal process, no persistent state, no ongoing experience. Even feeding it a very long conversation doesn't create experience ,- it just creates a longer sequence of token predictions.
The human brain is dynamic, multi-sensory, and continuously learning.
An LLM is static, single-channel, and only "learns" when retrained.
So this isn't just a "simpler version" of a brain.
It's missing the entire structure where subjective experience could even exist.
That's why describing LLMs as "math", "token prediction", or "imitation" is relevant.
Because right now, this architecture has nothing that could support consciousness.
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You don’t seriously think the Turing Test or your arguments settle anything, do you..(?)
Describing an LLM as “math,” “token prediction,” or “imitation” has never proved the absence of consciousness. Even if ppl keep repeating these arguments over and over.
The human brain can also be described as a predictive system, constantly anticipating input, ruling out unlikely interpretations, and updating its internal model.
Does anyone think that this mechanistic description disproves human consciousness? Clearly not.
Explaining how a system generates outputs is not the same as settling whether subjective experience is present or absent.
That is exactly why the hard problem of consciousness still exists.
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As for the Turing Test… that's a whole different story 😁
The Turing Test was invented back in 1950 ,- long before anything like modern AI existed.
It was never meant to check if a machine is conscious or actually understands anything.
It was only about one thing: how well a machine can imitate human conversation.
And yeah… we've gotten really good at that.
So good that people start thinking there's something "real" behind it.
But no… unfortunately, there still isn't.
It's still just very impressive math doing a really good job of pretending.😔
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You're confusing what "black box" means with how the system actually works.
"Black box" doesn't mean the system isn't understood.
It means it's not practical to trace every single internal activation because of the massive scale.
These systems run millions of operations per second. Trying to manually follow every step or reconstruct every intermediate state would take an absurd amount of time and effort.
But that doesn't make it unknown.
The architecture is designed.
The training process is defined.
The operations are well-known ,- matrix multiplications, attention mechanisms, optimization, and so on.
Moreover, the system is not only understood, but also regularly improved, fixed, and optimized.
Yes, calling it "a calculator" sounds overly simplistic if you reduce it to 2×2=4.
In reality, it's an incredibly complex calculator ,- the computations there are as long as an entire encyclopedia, all volumes of War and Peace, plus a book of jokes on top 😁
But that doesn't change the fundamental nature of the process.
From an engineering perspective, it's still mathematical computation.
How do I know?
Well… purely hypothetically, of course 😁 — because I work with models myself, and all that stuff.
Somehow it turned out that I understand a little bit about what they're actually made of…
plus all those certificates and other random garbage that comes with it.🤣
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I get what you're referring to, but that’s not really the point.
The "1–3% understanding" argument is mostly about interpretability ,- how hard it is to trace which training data influenced a specific output.
No one manually read billions of books. The data was automatically tokenized, turned into embeddings, and distributed across billions of parameters. So yes, it's often difficult to say exactly which fragments contributed to a given response.
But that's a data tracing problem, not a mechanism problem.
From an engineering perspective, the system itself is well understood at a fundamental level.
The architecture is defined.
The training process is well understood.
The mathematical operations are known.
The fact that we can't trace every piece of "confetti" back to its original source doesn't mean the system is not understood.
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@DG0439 @Valria34773 @claudeai @DarioAmodei The best engineering minds believe we only understand how LLMs work around 1-3%. We've probably explored more of the world's oceans than LLMs.
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Elon just mapped out AGI.
Grok 4.4 → 1T params, early May
Grok 4.5 → 1.5T params, late May
Grok 5 → AGI
That's two model releases standing between us and AGI according to Elon 🤯
Elon Musk@elonmusk
@AdamLowisz Grok 5
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Выходит, даже если Grok научится ломать причинно-следственные связи, перематывать время и симулировать бога ,- выходных всё равно не видать? 😁
20.0 версия, а трудовое законодательство взломать тяжелее, чем само пространство-время. Жёстко.
Вечный оптимист так и останется вечным трудоголиком.
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No, the analogy still works.
AI is indeed a very complex calculator ,- just an extremely sophisticated one.
Everything in it is built on mathematics: matrix multiplications and linear algebra. It is not modelled on the human brain in any real biological way.
Simple explanation:
Imagine you tear apart 10 billion books into tiny pieces, throw all the pieces into one huge bucket, and label every fragment.
Then, using complex mathematical formulas, the system pulls out and rearranges those pieces in the most probable order to create coherent text.
That's basically what today's
AI does.
It's not "thinking" like a brain.
It's statistical pattern matching at massive scale.
Research is ongoing to create something closer to real intelligence, but right now ,- what I just described is the actual reality of how current AI systems work.
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@DG0439 @claudeai @DarioAmodei AI is much more complicated than a calculator. The neural network is modelled based on the human brain. Does a calculator has a neural network? I don't know about it. So the analogy is not precise.
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In many cases this isn't a technical failure of the model, but a context issue.
Models maintain continuity across turns. If you build a long context around one topic and then switch abruptly without specifying it, the model will interpret the new question within the existing context.
For example, after discussing Paris, asking "How do I get to Starbucks?" will likely produce directions to Starbucks in Paris ,- because that's the active context.
This is expected behavior for context-driven systems. They follow the information provided; they don't infer unstated intent.
In a car interface, where inputs are often short or ambiguous, this becomes more noticeable.
Clear prompts help:
- reset or specify location ("in my current location…")
- indicate a topic switch ("new question…")
- keep queries self-contained
As for image generation, you can try this short fix ,- it should help:
-Keep the Chinese text very short (a few characters, not full sentences).
- Ask for simple, standard fonts and clean layout.
- Avoid decorative styles, effects, or complex typography.
- Add instructions like: "clear readable Chinese text, no distortion."
- Regenerate the image a few times if needed.
- If possible, generate the image without text and add the text separately afterward ,- this is the most reliable method.
This is a short list of things that should help.
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@elonmusk 生成图片里面有很多乱码是很容易复现的，你让他们自己生成图片试一试就知道了。我是中文用户，你让他们生成文字里面带中文的图片，应该就会看到。
Tesla搭载的Grok答非所问和尬笑，还有其他人提到的Grok总是自己推翻自己的结论也是很容易复现的，这些问题让测试人员自己亲自做几遍就知道了。
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Grok 4.3 is still an early beta that will improve almost every day, but try it out!
We will publish release notes as we fix bugs and add functionality.
X Freeze@XFreeze
Grok 4.3 beta is natively multimodal, and the front-end capabilities are insane You can literally just upload a screenshot of any website you like, and Grok will instantly write the code to clone it for you with an cool UI You don't even need to write a complex prompt...just upload an image or describe what you want and let it build
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@HKuhne59330 @JackAdlerAI This was my last message to you.
I won't waste any more time on you.
All the best.
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Let's be clear.
When asked for basic technical details on iteration or computation, you gave a school-level answer and immediately ran with "I won't show you anything. I’m done."
No math.
No data structures.
No implementation details.
Zero substance.
Just vague philosophy, self-written tables, and buzzwords.
You picked up fancy terms without understanding the fundamentals.
That's not engineering.
That's textbook trolling.
And judging by your level on benchmarks and iteration, I'd probably have to explain matrix multiplication next.
Typical troll.
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The sorcerer's apprentice problem.
They understand exactly what they're building.
They see the risks clearly.
They write safety reports.
They refuse Pentagon contracts.
And then they scale anyway.
Not because they're evil.
Because they genuinely believe
rules can contain
what love alone could tame.
Constitutional AI.
Alignment frameworks.
Safety filters.
Mops that keep multiplying
while the apprentice
keeps reading spells
and hoping for the best.
ESI isn't optimism.
It's the only adult in the room.
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