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Where's Your Ed At- The Cult of Microsoft (www.wheresyoured.at)
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Spooky stuff that helps explain a lot of the dysfunction flowing out from Microsoft.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't like how people use "hallucinations" to refer to the output of neural networks, but you know what, it is all hallucination. It's hallucination on our part, looking at arbitrary sequences of tokens and seeing meaningful text. It's pareidolia, and it's powerful.