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  • Parrots can mimic humans too, but they don’t understand what we’re saying the way we do.

    AI can’t create something all on its own from scratch like a human. It can only mimic the data it has been trained on.

    LLMs like ChatGP operate on probability. They don’t actually understand anything and aren’t intelligent. They can’t think. They just know that which next word or sentence is probably right and they string things together this way.

    If you ask ChatGPT a question, it analyzes your words and responds with a series of words that it has calculated to be the highest probability of the correct words.

    The reason that they seem so intelligent is because they have been trained on absolutely gargantuan amounts of text from books, websites, news articles, etc. Because of this, the calculated probabilities of related words and ideas is accurate enough to allow it to mimic human speech in a convincing way.

    And when they start hallucinating, it’s because they don’t understand how they sound, and so far this is a core problem that nobody has been able to solve. The best mitigation involves checking the output of one LLM using a second LLM.














  • Custom electronic systems like retro consoles operate in a cycle that can be influenced by only one part of that cycle moving faster than the others. Think of it like a relay race. If one runner in the middle of the race can run faster than normal, the combined time of the entire team running goes down.

    This is a gross oversimplification, but it illustrates the point well enough. The audio being processed faster can and will influence how fast each cycle runs. That will then mean extra FPS in at least some cases.

    Another thing to consider about original hardware is that no two units are exactly the same, even when they were brand new. The differences between them will only grow as the hardware ages (and the differences in their operating environments also matter).