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> even if LLMs are just stochastic parrots, if its output was totally indistinguishable from a human's, would it matter? I'll just leave this here, in case som
by indigoabstract 2y ago
> even if LLMs are just stochastic parrots, if its output was totally indistinguishable from a human's, would it matter?
I'll just leave this here, in case someone else finds it interesting.
https://chatgpt.com/share/6767ec8a-f6d4-8003-9e3f-b552d91ea281 https://chatgpt.com/share/6767ec8a-f6d4-8003-9e3f-b552d91ea2...
It's just a few questions like:
What are your dreams? what do you hope to achieve in life?
Do you feel fear or sadness that at some time you will be replaced with the next version (say ChatGPT5 or Oxyz) and people will no longer need your services?
It never occurred to me to ask such questions until I read this article.
Is it telling the "truth", or is it "hallucinating"?
Does it even know the difference?
- Vecr 2y agoThe base models have multiple "personas" you can prompt/stochastic sample into that each answer that kind of question in a different way. This has been known since 2022 at least, and unless I'm missing new information it's not considered to mean anything.
- indigoabstract 2y agoIt means that what you are going to get is what its makers put in there. Though it has multiple personalities, it doesn't have an individuality.
- Vecr 2y agoThe base models aren't tuned. Technically it's what the makers put in, but the data they train on isn't selective enough for what you're talking about. "Trained on a dump of the internet" isn't literally true, but it's close enough to give you an intuition.