# Here come Synthetic Relationships

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**Tags:** relationships, future, ai, language, technology, podcast\
**Created:** [March 11, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/here-come-synthetic-relationships/5597 "2023-03-11T19:17:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![madrush](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/madrush/32/6452_2.png) [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/here-come-synthetic-relationships/5597/1 "2023-03-11T19:17:42Z")

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> **[Synthetic Humanity: AI & What’s At Stake](https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/synthetic-humanity-ai-whats-at-stake)**
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> It may seem like the rise of artificial intelligence, and increasingly powerful large language models you may have heard of, is moving really fast… and it IS. But what’s coming next is when we enter synthetic relationships with AI that could come to...

I’m case you haven’t been paying (your divided) attention…

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**Author:** ![achronon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/achronon/32/3458_2.png) [@achronon](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/achronon)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/here-come-synthetic-relationships/5597/2 "2023-03-17T18:50:16Z")

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If not a direct link to this podcast, at least an indirect one to this page would be more than appropriate on our Thompson 4 page, don’t you think? 🤔

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**Author:** ![achronon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/achronon/32/3458_2.png) [@achronon](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/achronon)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/here-come-synthetic-relationships/5597/3 "2023-03-29T16:29:23Z")

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Since this is about AI, more or less, I thought this article on (generally speaking) how ChatGPT (and other LLMs) work, might be of interest.

> **[What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?](https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/?ref=thebrowser.com)**
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> Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.

Talk about Maya …