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You're reading too much into it, and seeing empathy from a language model where there's none.
by sph 3y ago
You're reading too much into it, and seeing empathy from a language model where there's none.
- turboturbo 3y ago> seeing empathy from a language model I think you misread the message above
- tuwtuwtuwtuw 3y agoI don't see where in his comment he implied that the model has empathy. The model proposed to do something to empathize with X, but that doesn't imply that he commenter is seeing empathy from the model.
- zogrodea 3y agoAplogies for the lack of clarity on my part. The other two sibling comments are right about what I meant. I don't think a language model has empathy, but I think this suggestion can be good for the potential real-world consequences it may have and, if its suggestions are acted on, that might inspire empathy from the actors. I think you're right that my interpretation/hope about the consequences are unlikely though.
- K0balt 3y agoEmpathy as a cultural artefact is imbedded in large learning models insofar as one might find it expressed in their training set as human language. It follows then that LLMs do in fact -express- empathy (as prose) even though they of course do not experience empathy as an emotion or as a call to action. It’s important to remember that although LLMs do not have an emotional existence, they are portals through which we access a significant corpus of human knowledge, language, and culture. It follows that they will be capable and even adept at expressing elements of that knowledge, language, and culture - including parts we think of as emotionally driven.