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Your framing is accurate. But since much of the reporting about AI breathlessly talks about all the emergent capabilities and "thinking" it does rather than jus
by jebarker 2y ago
Your framing is accurate. But since much of the reporting about AI breathlessly talks about all the emergent capabilities and "thinking" it does rather than just saying it mimicks human text on average, it's reasonable to do the same for it's failures.
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- Terr_ 2y agoI'm absolutely okay with metaphors that anthropomorphize or personify complicated things when there's no risk of confusion. ("The crystallizing water wants to expand.") However the LLM mania is almost the perfect-storm of when it's a bad idea, too many people will believe or act like the person-ness is literal. Framing negative issues with the models in personal terms is just perpetuating a problem.
- Lerc 2y agoAs a framing device for explanation I think it serves to describe a situation provided that it is made clear that the distinction between what it is doing and actual consciousness is made clear. I feel it is very much like saying an electron wants to inhabit a lower energy level in an atom. Nobody believes that the electron exhibits desire, but framing it in that way enables people to predict what would happen in a given situation. It does get more complicated when we are approaching a level where people are seriously suggesting that there is thinking, awareness, and theory of mind going on in models. When people are arguing this position they make it very clear that they are talking about the real deal and not a metaphor or framing device.