Good morning folks
It's not sentient, it's just an LLM that doesn't know when to shut the fuck up.
I'm not saying that LLMs ignoring stop tokens and just going on their own weird dream-cycle exploration of time and space isn't interesting, but I am absolutely saying it's not sentience.
Basically:
* You ask a question
* The model answers it
* The model ignores (probably a setup issue) the trigger to stop talking built into the source data
* The model then goes 'well... what's next?'
* Probability says that what comes next is user input
* The model simulates the user asking a question
* The model then answers that question
* Cycle continues
* Things go off the rails eventually.

You ever have a coworker who answers a question, poses a question to themselves, answers that question, then keeps going?

Yeah, it's exactly that. They're missing the 'and now I stop talking' cue.

I've taken Gypsy out to a (ridiculously expensive) cafe for late breakfast.

They have lavender lattes and iced lavender lattes and... We're going to try it (and get pancakes!)

Spoiler: it's fucking delicious son.
The pancakes were delicious
Also, I went back to the antique store from about a year and a half ago and... Thry still had those recipe folders!
(The plan is to scan and OCR these then host them somewhere so everyone can enjoy...)

'Why is it always only MEN who want robot wives and girlfriends?'

**dies of laughter while gesturing towards Replika and it's immense female userbase**

I hate to interrupt your worldview's regular programming, but there are a LOT OF WOMEN who want to fuck robots.

Reading a report on RealDolls, annnnnd:

9.7% of American Men have a sex doll.
6.1% of American Women have a sex doll.

Didn't think that today's research would be about how many people use sex dolls, but here we are...

Let me just say upfront that I am... surprised?

Like, even if only 10% use 'em (apparently this is a pretty measured thing), that's still 0.6% of american women and... that's a LOT.

(Actually, I read that wrong - 86% DO USE their dolls, so it's more like 5.4% of American women have used a sex doll)
@DarkestKale 5.4% who are willing to share that info