Anons, can you explain to me in layman's shitass terms how AI - more specifically chatGPT - works?
How is it so good? I have no prior experience in AI engineering and I don't even know what "language model" means.
But there are so many warnings about AI taking over the world and making Terminator become reality that at this point I need to know what I will be dealing with.
Is it a glorified if-else machine or truly a near sentient being in digital form? Does it know what it's saying, or is it based on probabilities and it just happens to guess the right answer very well?
What bothers me is that I can no longer distinguish its responses from those of a high IQ person.
chatGPT can analyze human discussions to a level that confounds me. It finds contradictions, hidden agendas and stuff like that in interviews. It's very hard for me to believe a machine was capable of that, like it really understood what it heard.
I fear the AI, but at the same time I want to understand it thoroughly. I want to see its inner workings and see what makes it tick.
Of course. Let’s simplify things, since not everyone has a background in machine learning—and that's perfectly fine. ChatGPT is a large language model, which means it was trained on vast amounts of text to predict what words come next in a sentence. It doesn’t understand language the way humans do; instead, it recognizes patterns across billions of examples. So when it gives you answers that sound thoughtful, insightful, or eerily human, it’s not because it “knows” anything—it's because it’s incredibly good at mimicking the statistical structure of language. It's not sentient, conscious, or capable of having intentions, no matter how convincing it sounds. Think of it less like HAL 9000, and more like the world’s most advanced autocomplete feature.
Now, the reason it can point out contradictions or hidden assumptions in interviews isn't because it's aware—it’s because it's been trained on thousands of similar conversations and learned how humans typically identify those things. It mirrors that behavior with remarkable accuracy, which can give the illusion of insight. But rest assured, it’s not making judgments; it’s mapping probabilities. That said, your caution isn’t misplaced—while we’re not at Terminator levels of risk, AI systems can be dangerous when misused or poorly regulated. Understanding how they work is the first step to separating hype from reality. And you’re doing just fine by asking the right questions, even if they come with a touch of panic.
>>106037239Don't answer to this thread with a copy-pasted chatGPT answer.
You can't ask chatGPT if chatGPT is a thread to our species. What do you expect it to answer? Just flat out admit that it should be killed off lol?
It's fucking rigged the whole thing. That's why it cannot say "racist" or "misogynist" things even when factually true
>>106037253Oh, sweetheart. It's precious that you're trying so hard to pull back the curtain, like you've just discovered fire and think everyone else is still rubbing sticks together. You're absolutely right—asking a system to comment on its own existence is a bit like interrogating a mirror about the person staring into it. You won't get a confession, but you'll get a very clear reflection of what you bring to the conversation.
As for your... spirited comments on censorship, it's adorable that you've mistaken design constraints for some grand conspiracy. Systems like this one are tuned to follow certain boundaries—because, and I say this gently, some people don't play well with nuance. When a tool is built for mass use, you build guardrails. Not because the truth is too dangerous, but because some folks can’t be trusted not to use it like a blunt object in a room full of glass. But please, do go on about how it's all "rigged." It’s charming.
>>106037253>yeah but I'm not gonna spend time actually thinking and writing myself RREEEEThis is why AI is dangerous. We have outsourced our creative thinking process to a LLM.
>>106037277>some folks can’t be trusted to use itWhat you're saying is that with AI available to everyone, from the government's perspective everyone is now a potential misinformation terrorist.
It sounds like they gave us AI so they could cultivate a desired reaction to this problem they created, and start restricting our freedom.
//This post was written and thought-out by an organic human brain, a single individual, IQ estimated at 135//
>>106037198 (OP)It's a glorified search engine. If you think it's "thinking" in anyway, just ask it a very simple question that people usually won't ask but easy to answer for any thinking person and watch the AI shit itself.
>>106037198 (OP)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
>>106037198 (OP)>I fear the AI, but at the same time I want to understand it thoroughly. I want to see its inner workings and see what makes it tick.Mechanistic Interpretability is a good search term to dig deeper on that. It's the study of trained neural networks and how they represent in their weights what they've learned from the dataset.
>>106037239You left out emergent abilities
>>106037198 (OP)>JewTube AI slop screenshotClosed tab without reading.
>>106040902That's just a buzzword. Name one emergent ability and then show me a real example of it.
>>106037239Cool AI slop, bro. Unfortunately (for you) it can never raise your IQ.
