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You have five million years or so of language modeling, accompanied by a survival-tuned pattern recognition system, and have been fed stories of trickster gods, djinn, witches, robots and AIs.

It is not surprising that a LLM which is explicitly selected for generating plausible patterns taken from the very linguistic corpus that you have been swimming in your entire life looks like the beginnings of a person to you. It looks that way to lots of people.

But that's not a correct intuition, at least for now.



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