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> The implications are clear: incorporating emotional cues can lead to more effective and responsive AI applications. I think it's important to remember these

> The implications are clear: incorporating emotional cues can lead to more effective and responsive AI applications. I think it's important to remember these models were trained on human interaction, and are in many ways a mirror for us to better understand human interaction. I don't think many people would be surprised if you said emotion can be used to better communicate with a human, but it is interesting to see it laid bare with numbers and experiments.

akoboldfrying 3y ago
This correlates with anecdata I've seen claiming that being polite with LLMs (using "please", "thank you", etc.) also improves performance. All in all, I like this. Both for what it implies about humans interacting with other humans, and for shaping norms about how best to to interact with other entities that show signs of intelligence.
- AlecSchueler 3y ago
  Does it extend to arbitrary entities of intelligence, though, or only those whose cognitive bases are derived from human output?
  - akoboldfrying 3y ago
    So far, just those entities similar to humans. But (1) the set of other people regarded by society as belonging to "the ingroup" (i.e., valued, treated with respect) has steadily broadened over the centuries, at least in the West, and I'd expect that to continue, eventually embracing quite alien notions of intelligence; (2) I personally think intelligence is not the best measure of what deserves respect in any case -- rather, it's the combination of capacity to suffer and willingness to limit one's own actions to reduce the suffering of others.
- sznio 3y ago
  I really dislike it. It's a tool. It should execute instructions, not demand pleasantries.
  - zigman1 3y ago
    A slave in the Roman empire/United States/Nazi concentration camps etc etc were also perceived as a tool. Do they deserve pleasantries? (no implication about morality of slavery but I intentionally selected examples where enslaved people were dehumanized)

akoboldfrying 3y ago

This correlates with anecdata I've seen claiming that being polite with LLMs (using "please", "thank you", etc.) also improves performance. All in all, I like this. Both for what it implies about humans interacting with other humans, and for shaping norms about how best to to interact with other entities that show signs of intelligence.

AlecSchueler 3y ago
Does it extend to arbitrary entities of intelligence, though, or only those whose cognitive bases are derived from human output?
- akoboldfrying 3y ago
  So far, just those entities similar to humans. But (1) the set of other people regarded by society as belonging to "the ingroup" (i.e., valued, treated with respect) has steadily broadened over the centuries, at least in the West, and I'd expect that to continue, eventually embracing quite alien notions of intelligence; (2) I personally think intelligence is not the best measure of what deserves respect in any case -- rather, it's the combination of capacity to suffer and willingness to limit one's own actions to reduce the suffering of others.
sznio 3y ago
I really dislike it. It's a tool. It should execute instructions, not demand pleasantries.
- zigman1 3y ago
  A slave in the Roman empire/United States/Nazi concentration camps etc etc were also perceived as a tool. Do they deserve pleasantries? (no implication about morality of slavery but I intentionally selected examples where enslaved people were dehumanized)