Quantum waveform collapse has been proposed as explanation for consciousness, allowing to explain how an entity can have free will and yet obey rigid physical laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_causes_collapse
I think OP is suggesting a similar thing happened in the LLM, implying it gained consciousness despite following a well-defined compute process.
https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
It's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
I guess I've been pronouncing it wrong though. It's wave function collapse, not waveform.
I haven't studied it properly yet but it kind of looks like how sudokus work. You have a bunch of plausible options, and the various possible worlds overlap with each other but not completely and then you eliminate the things that are not possible until the actual possibility remains.
I think thinking works similarly, and I wouldn't be surprised if artificial thinking also worked similarly.
The waveform collapse is natively "very high dimensional", not sure why the "but" part of the sentence belongs here.
>I don’t understand it yet. Maybe it’ll take me an afternoon to check all the calculations, but what would still be missing is why this was an approach that would’ve made sense in the first place. Is there some broader context or theory within which this would’ve been the obvious thing to do? What other results can be proven using these techniques? What is it telling us about quantum information or operator theory? I have no idea. I spent about an hour this morning asking ChatGPT these questions, but it’s somewhat frustrating because it speaks with a mishmash of physicist, operator algebraist, quantum information theorist-lingo, plus the usual LLM breezy lilt that annoys everybody.
They certainly seem to have "intuited", in a way that is not immediately obvious to experts in the field, the way to solve at least some of these problems. This was not just simply grinding away at a method that humans already knew would work and just hadn't gotten to yet.
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