It's not sentient, but it's not simply dropping the next likely token.
That doesn't explain why it can have a debate with itself as 4 distinct personalities at the same time, or act as a used car salesman and actually haggle with me over the price of a Ferrari, or write a story about anything you want, with a beginning, middle, and ending.
Those aren't in the corpus. After a tense negotion, I was able to get that Ferrari for $87,000 (ChatGPT originally wanted $120,000).
Emergent behavior is possible with these incredibly complex systems.
Not sure if you saw ChatGPT debate itself but it was pretty spectacularly crap? Of course, we know we know, ChatGPT 4 is absolutely mind mind blowing and better, but let's see it again soon.
No, I set it up to have a "quiz party" with itself, where ChatGPT was essentially the moderator asking the questions, and the 4 other "AIs" had distinct personalities, or heavy accents. Like one was angry and always thought it was right, another was nervous and unsure about it's answers, one was 5 years old and another could barely speak English with a heavy accent but was confident in its answers.
It was very interesting to watch. The "participants" actually started arguing with each other about the right answer, or straight-up insulting each other.
That doesn't explain why it can have a debate with itself as 4 distinct personalities at the same time, or act as a used car salesman and actually haggle with me over the price of a Ferrari, or write a story about anything you want, with a beginning, middle, and ending.
Those aren't in the corpus. After a tense negotion, I was able to get that Ferrari for $87,000 (ChatGPT originally wanted $120,000).
Emergent behavior is possible with these incredibly complex systems.