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Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT by ogogmad on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:01AM (#33852874)
It suggests that it understand what pseudorandomness looks like. A hash function output usually looks pseudorandom.

It's almost like it can look at a picture from an old television, and separate the random static from the "signal" part of the picture. It can carry out de-noising because it knows what noise is. It can never remember exactly what the noise looked like, because like for us, it doesn't matter.

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Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT by michaf on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:51AM (#33853238)
If you restart the session and enter

  > echo test1 | md5
it will output another random 'hash' each time. But within one session it knows that md5 should produce the same output. Running

  > echo test1 | md5
multiple times, or even

  > VAR1="test1"; echo $VAR1 | md5
produces the same output for me within the same session, while

  > echo test2 | md5
results in a different, but also session-consistent hash.
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Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT by ogogmad on Sunday December 04, 2022 @08:00AM (#33853313)
It understands the "pseudo" in pseudorandom. (That is, the determinism).

Pseudo + "random".

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