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> Treat it as a naive but intelligent intern. You are falling into the trap that everyone does. In anthropomorphising it. It doesn't understand anything you sa
by EagnaIonat 2y ago
> Treat it as a naive but intelligent intern.
You are falling into the trap that everyone does. In anthropomorphising it. It doesn't understand anything you say. It just statistically knows what a likely response would be.
Treat it as text completion and you can get more accurate answers.
- TeMPOraL 2y ago> You are falling into the trap that everyone does. In anthropomorphising it. It doesn't understand anything you say. And an intern does? Anthropomorphising LLMs isn't entirely incorrect: they're trained to complete text like a human would, in completely general setting, so by anthropomorphising them you're aligning your expectations with the models' training goals.
- MPSimmons 2y agoOh no, I'm well aware that it's a big file full of numbers. But when you chat with it, you interact with it as though it were a person so you are necessarily anthropomorphizing it, and so you get to pick the style of the interaction. (In truth, I actually treat it in my mind like it's the Enterprise computer and I'm Beverly Crusher in "Remember Me")