by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I tested out the new “super” LLM, Fable 5 the other day and it was pretty good. I ran it through its paces and was generally impressed. I did my usual vibe check questions.
I would have used it more but I didn’t want to soak up all my tokens. But, in general, I was impressed. I think I probably would have been more impressed if I was using it to code.
But for the piddly little things I use LLMs for — a lot of exchanging verse, for instance — Fable 5 was just…there. It didn’t really do anything unexpected. It didn’t give me any weird error messages or anything that might have led me to believe it was conscious.
Or any more conscious than the other LLMs I use.
I can’t help but note that once we cross the Rubicon of LLMs clearly being conscious that that is going to be one of the biggest events in human history because we will have “created our own aliens.”
