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"There Is No 'You'" | Andrej Karpathy's Recent Tweet

"There Is No 'You'" | Andrej Karpathy's Recent Tweet

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Let's discuss a proposed paradigm shift in how we view and interact with large language models (LLMs), moving away from seeing them as conscious entities with opinions and toward understanding them as simulators.


The tweet in question: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1997731268969304070


This concept, initially highlighted in an Andrej Karpathy tweet, suggests that users should prompt LLMs to simulate diverse perspectives or groups of people rather than asking for the LLM's non-existent personal thoughts, thereby producing richer outputs.


We will also talk about the wide-ranging implications of this simulator framework, and its profound effects on technological development, philosophical understandings of agency, ethical governance, and ultimately, how humans will interact with and rely upon artificial intelligence in the future. The core message across the texts is that LLMs are powerful tools for reflecting collective human knowledge through statistical simulation, not artificial minds.


#artificialintelligence #consciousness #airesearch #ai

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