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Because human beings understand the way the world works, but an LLM only deals in language, whereas societies, economies et al are incredibly complex and nuance
by hammyhavoc 3y ago
Because human beings understand the way the world works, but an LLM only deals in language, whereas societies, economies et al are incredibly complex and nuanced, and also not defined by language.
Whilst a hypothetical application of a neural network politically may not abuse power for its own gain, that doesn't preclude it from making uninformed decisions, just like being a human being doesn't preclude someone from making poor decisions.
How would constituents hold a neural network accountable?
All kinds of shitty things could be done "because the neural net says so", and that lack of accountability is in and of itself a fundamental problem, especially the lack of human-readable data set as it is stored as tokens, it's only the output that is human-readable, so we wouldn't even be able to tell in what ways it had been manipulated. The ultimate patsy and scapegoat for real human beings to take advantage of.