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2026-07-18 19:48 UTC

These gaming slang translation fails may seem small, but they're not. They're a great example of what machine learning researchers have long worried about within translation & about generative models as a whole. Everything is confabulation. It works most of the time because the statistical correlations are good. But when input gets into the "long tail," shit happens.

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social 2026-07-18 19:48

This is why disembodied artificial systems will never become conscious. They have no actual experience in the world that is a ground truth. Stacking billions of abstract relationalities will not create even one somatic reality. Much more on that idea here: https://plus.flux.community/p/large-language-models-and-the-textual

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