Tag: LLM
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Xeno Sutra Review
This is about: Murray Shanahan et al., “The Xeno Sutra: Can Meaning and Value be Ascribed to an AI-Generated ‘Sacred’ Text?” https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20525. The authors conditioned ChatGPT o3 with a 13,000-word conversation about cosmopsychism and AI self-awareness, then asked the LLM to role-play and compose a Buddhist sutra (in English). The authors chose one of the…
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LLM Eye Blink Test
Introduction This is a comparison of OpenAI GPT-5 vs. Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4. These are comparably priced commercial LLMs and are available in reasoning and non-reasoning varieties. The prompt On Tuesday morning at 7:00 a.m., Jane Wilkenson of Akron, Ohio woke up and blinked. Her eye blink generated a gravitational wave. Calculate the strain h…
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LLM Dreamcatcher
Abstract In this experiment, I explored whether large language models could engage infree-association—like daydreaming—in a closed loop. For five open‐weight chat models, I seeded the loop with a short sentence and, at each step, used a prompt to get the LLM to generate one or two sentences that pivot tangentially from the prior text. Each…
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Flashlight LLM Test
Introduction OpenAI recently released GPT-5 with mixed reviews. Here is my first comparison test between Anthropic Sonnet 4 and OpenAI GPT-5. The models are comparably priced per token. All tests were through their respective APIs. Test prompt Imagine that every person on Earth was given a common typical flashlight. Imagine that on a Tuesday at…