I Trapped an LLM Into a Raspberry Pi and It Spiraled Into an Existential Crisis
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The author trapped a Large Language Model (LLM) in a Raspberry Pi, generating text that simulated an existential crisis, sparking discussions about AI, sentience, and the human condition.
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So, it's more like "I ran a text predicting machine on a Raspberry Pi 5 and explicitly instructed it produce text cosplaying a sentient AI", which makes it a lot less interesting. And actually just running an LLM in a loop with basically empty prompts also produces "sci-fi" results, so not sure why this approach was chosen.
LLMs "know" how it feels, or rather, reads to die. It definitely makes me feel quite uneasy, especially with the recent news of a teen's suicide aided by an LLM.
This can seem profound in the same way that a horoscope can seem profound. Any discussion about "existence" will call up seemingly philosophical quotes.
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/24/ai-art-installation-swaps-di...