The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con

@matjoeman Well, we kinda do. Computers at their most basic circuit level use logic gates, and perform functions by doing mathematics. At the base, so that they can communicate even within microchips, they must be binary coded. Even if over that on/off there's octal, hex, decimal, there must be a binary code at the core, two possibilities. We expand upon that by adding more paths, more logic gates, more complexity but the signal is a square. Two voltages.

Even as a computer recreates a sound for a human's ear, a sound that is a sine wave, it is still digitally encoded. Meaning it's a complex string of bits. It's two voltages that are being manipulated by logic gates to produce sound in a sine wave. But it's two voltages.

Human brains, however, are processing those sine waves, those complex frequencies that go across many voltages, as a spectrum. They aren't boiling it down to two voltages, they aren't basing it all on two voltages.

I'm not saying we'll NEVER get AI, but I think we need a revolutionarily different way of transferring information WITHIN the microchip to achieve that level of complexity.