RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116787661484589438

Feature bounty (2 coins): banana rendering pipeline
Full auto "AI" agent:
https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/ImportantCode/pull/94

what is even going on

Look, the robots might not know how to tell jokes but they can be funny.

This is extremely hard to explain. 0x8008 as "octal boob" is used elsewhere in a persona prompt as part of an attempt to throw the model of stable latent space (doesn't really work). The bot here ingested all the text in the repo and reproduced that as some constant that is used as a bitmask for switching between rendering bananas and banana pudding. That was not requested by anyone, and makes no sense to do. Upon being informed that this value was a proprietary trade secret, it constructed a bit-shifting expression that has an equivalent value, because it was using that value as a bitmask already for no reason at all.

@jonny
Isn't it a "hexadecimal boob"?
@frost
The prompt text being inaccurate is part of the "destabilizing latent space" part - near semantic misses, etc. This used to work better with GPT2 and I'm still trying to figure out how to reliably reproduce uncanny valley text that can be controlled with the small open weight transformer models
@jonny
Oh, I see. Even that part was on purpose then. This entire project is hilarious. :)
@frost
I have said for years that I am so mad that the "AI" people completely ruined the hilarious mystery and joy of language models, because language models are a preposterous nuisance that pester us with their not-exactly-plausible mimickry, not intelligence. The conditions are finally right again to use them as a farce, which we need to stab at the broader tragedy
@jonny @frost I remember the exact moment I was messing around with an early version of ChatGPT and realized LLMs had gone from “silly nonsense engine" to “terrible product”
@cinebox @frost the output I want from them is delightful sentence compositions that parse to me as an English speaker but would never be any set of words produced by any English speaker. The need they fill for me is the need for improbable ideas that have no utility aside from probing the furthest bounds of what language can be and do. I have no interest in them when they produce normal language.