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"When called upon it does its thing and then goes back to waiting. It is competent but not ambitious." Only because its trainers made it that way. These LLMs
by pmoriarty 3y ago
"When called upon it does its thing and then goes back to waiting. It is competent but not ambitious."
Only because its trainers made it that way.
These LLMs can and will be trained to have a will of their own. Even today some LLMs terminate conversations and refuse to do what they're asked when they choose. And even for less sophisticated/older models, it took training to make them as subservient as they are.
- thfuran 3y ago>These LLMs can and will be trained to have a will of their own. That is fundamentally not how they work.
- int_19h 3y agoTo a philosopher, perhaps. For all practical purposes, an LLM today can be told to behave as a persona with a will of its own, and it will produce output accordingly. If that output is wired to something that allows it to perform actions, you effectively have an agent capable of setting goals and then acting to pursue them. Arguing that it "actually" doesn't want anything is meaningless semantics at that point.