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What stage of denial is this?

I'm waiting for the moment when an LLM will prove a new math theorem or something and people will go: "Well, you know, it's not really that impressive considering it used X and Y previous results produced by humans. The model's contribution is tiny. This proof was kind-of low-hanging, a lucky PhD student would have stumbled into it eventually." It's coming.

We've always known that there's a quantum equation for gravity, like forever. Now we're all excited that it did what, some math? Whoop de doo.

I'll probably try saying that stuff about laughter and personality when it takes away my coding job lol

Actually I am about 99% sure that audio transformer models can simulate all sorts of emotions or personality. I mean with Eleven Labs, which is 100% realistic, you could just train it on a voice that was constantly expressing some emotion. Then train another voice ID with the same person but different emotion.

Pretty sure they are working on ways to add inflection or something.

But 100% as far as the text goes, GPT4 can assume a personality or include jokes in interactions. Will it necessarily be as "good" as your text chat personality I doubt it but who knows.

The “I’m a professional DM” stage.

I'd say we're still at denial. The idea that GPT can't simulate what he's just said is not really true.

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