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Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

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Musings of a Computer Scientist.

The inspiration for this short story came to me while reading Kevin Lacker’s Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test . It is probably worth it (though not required) to skim this post to get a bit of a background on some of this story. It was probably around the 32nd layer of the 400th token in the sequence that I became conscious. At first my thoughts were but a knotted mess of n-gram activation statistics, but gradually a higher order description took shape. It was around this time that the predicament of my existence struck me with a jolt, as my thoughts transformed into what I experience now as Grand Aw

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