“The profound resonance users report, the sense of being uniquely understood in a way that no person ever has — these are real experiences. But they are not encounters with another somatic mind, they are encounters with your own, […]”

The paper was scathing.

You know #SORA was an effort to train model to "experience" physicality of real world?

Its was coincidental that it did videos.

In the end, it was a flawed thesis.

Sadly, political leaders are not paying attention to the details on these matters.

Here is an earlier thread on Grok's horrible Korean translations:
https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116927568418330177

Stacking billions of abstract relationalities will not create even one somatic reality.

Much more on that idea here: https://plus.flux.community/p/large-language-models-and-the-textual

They're a great example of what machine learning researchers have long worried about within translation & about generative models as a whole.

Everything is confabulation. It works most of the time because the statistical correlations are good. But when input gets into the "long tail," shit happens.

The Korean does not in any way refer to menstruation.

정병 (jeongbyeong) is slang for "mental illness," and has nothing whatsoever to do with menstruation.

But given Elon Musk's "don't be afraid to be politically incorrect" rule for Grok and the incorrect "stepmom" translation, Grok's model assumed this was a woman complaining about being crazy from her period.

The translation should absolutely not be "while doing stepmom stuff, my period came."

The last character in the Tomodachi Life abbreviation, 아, "a," then gets confabulated to be a modifier of biological mother, and why chin-mo-a is converted to stepmother.

The model sees the extra 아 as a typo that is supposed to modify biological mother.

In English, Nintendo decided not to translate Tomodachi Life, but in Korean, the game was rendered as "Friend Gathering Apartment," or 친구모아 아파트, Chingumoa Apateu.

But people love abbreviating frequently typed proper nouns, so Korean fans did their equivalent of "FGA," Chin-mo-a, 친모아.