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The name sounds like illicit.

• vsnf 2y ago
  elicit transitive verb 1: to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) her remarks elicited cheers 2: to draw forth or bring out (something latent or potential) hypnotism elicited his hidden fears https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elicit https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elicit
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• dpflan 2y ago
  Indeed, I get the idea behind the name, but there is certainly a dash of irony here being that it is an LLM, who knows if it was "ethically" trained...
  • jamesbrady 2y ago
    Actually, it's not an LLM! We do use LLMs, but the secret sauce is an approach we call Factored Cognition which we wrote about here: https://ought.org/research/factored-cognition https://ought.org/research/factored-cognition (Elicit the company and app was spun out from Ought the research lab). We do joke internally about the homophone (in fact, IIRC we did a little joke on our CEO by rebranding for his birthday in 2022) but I'm sorry to report that we're all careful, ethical, and well-behaved people :(
    • dpflan 2y ago
      Cool, thanks for more info, nice to see other approaches. What data is used for training?