You can approximate your own ChatGPT on your iPhone by just randomly selecting words that appear in the autocomplete to form a sentence. This is basically how ChatGPT works but better and on a larger scale. Give it a try you’ll be surprised what comes out.
What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
My brain knows where it's going to go by the end of the sentence as well, it's conceptualized the whole sentence and my hands are on the road to completing the sentence, I'm not only aware of what I've written so far.
> My brain knows where it's going to go by the end of the sentence as well How would you know that? Sincere question, because to me it feels like my brain is improvising word by word when typing out this sentence. I often delete and retype it until it feels right, but in the process of typing a single sentence, I'm just chaining words one after another the way they feel right. In other words, my brain doesn't exactly…
In my case it's because my internal dialogue is saying the sentence before I get to the end of it. I usually have the entire sentence in my inner dialogue before I even start typing. Will I edit during typing? Sure, but I have a first version in my head before I start.
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#23It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time I'm curious how do you write?
There's a lot of answers here, but as Feynman said "that which I can't build I don't understand." If you can't make something that writes for you, you don't really understand how you write. That feels impossible, to be able to do something without understanding how you do it. Brain be like that sometimes.
I'd be careful about interpreting that. Can you "build" numbers? Yes, in one sense. No in another. And he doesn't specify whether being able to build something is sufficient for understanding it or merely necessary.
And even when you've built it, what about other ways that it could be built? If you implement binary search iteratively, then perhaps you understand binary search. But do you understand its recursive implementation?
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#24It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time I'm curious how do you write?
I was just trying to do some metacognition and observe how I write, but apparently it's really just word by word. I neither form full sentences, nor full words or even just abstract imagination in my head. The words just appear from the "darkness", with some kind of sophistication postprocessor that tries to make some output more verbose or use more appropriate adjectives. Is this how people with aphantasia live? I d…
There is definitely something else going on ... if I stop writing and come back to it often the sentence fragment I was writing makes no sense at all. If it was word by word, I'd just start writing again.
Also, I usually "hear" the next segment fragment in my head before I'm typing it.
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#25Tangentially related, but I really liked Tom Scott's recent video on ChatGPT.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
My brain knows where it's going to go by the end of the sentence as well, it's conceptualized the whole sentence and my hands are on the road to completing the sentence, I'm not only aware of what I've written so far.
> My brain knows where it's going to go by the end of the sentence as well How would you know that? Sincere question, because to me it feels like my brain is improvising word by word when typing out this sentence. I often delete and retype it until it feels right, but in the process of typing a single sentence, I'm just chaining words one after another the way they feel right. In other words, my brain doesn't exactly…
Not everyone has an inner monologue
https://mymodernmet.com/inner-monologue/
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think in an "idea" space, which then I transcribe into words.
If this idea space is linear, it gives a whole new meaning to an idea being orthogonal to another.
I've always thought "orthogonal" as in ideas came from "orthogonal" as in vectors - meaning to be independent of each other.
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#28You can approximate your own ChatGPT on your iPhone by just randomly selecting words that appear in the autocomplete to form a sentence. This is basically how ChatGPT works but better and on a larger scale. Give it a try you’ll be surprised what comes out.
I don’t know what to do with my life right now. I just want to be able to be with you and I know that I am not alone in my feelings.
Wow. Very “Valentines Day” meets therapy session.
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#29You can approximate your own ChatGPT on your iPhone by just randomly selecting words that appear in the autocomplete to form a sentence. This is basically how ChatGPT works but better and on a larger scale. Give it a try you’ll be surprised what comes out.
Not all Markovian maximum likelihood estimators are made equal, ChatGPT can be considered sui generis.
Re: What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My brain knows where it's going to go by the end of the sentence as well How would you know that? Sincere question, because to me it feels like my brain is improvising word by word when typing out this sentence. I often delete and retype it until it feels right, but in the process of typing a single sentence, I'm just chaining words one after another the way they feel right. In other words, my brain doesn't exactly…
In my case it's because my internal dialogue is saying the sentence before I get to the end of it. I usually have the entire sentence in my inner dialogue before I even start typing. Will I edit during typing? Sure, but I have a first version in my head before I start.
> I usually have the entire sentence in my inner dialogue before I even start typing
Interesting. Perhaps the question then becomes, does your inner dialogue simply chain the words one after another, or does it come up with sentences as whole?