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It would be helpful to tell users that it's just a model producing mathematically probable tokens but that would go against the AI marketing.
by throwaway48476 10mo ago
It would be helpful to tell users that it's just a model producing mathematically probable tokens but that would go against the AI marketing.
- galacticaactual 10mo agoAnd you’re a sack of meat and neurons producing learned chemical responses to external stimuli. Now tell me how useful that is.
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- krackers 10mo agohttps://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
- ge96 10mo ago> Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat. That's good
- goatlover 10mo agoI find it more useful to think of myself as part of a wave function splitting thousands of times a second.
- moritzwarhier 10mo agoAlso chatbots are explicitly designed to evoke anthropomorphizing them and to pull susceptible people into some kind of para-social relationship. Doesn't even have to be as obviously unhealthy as the "LLM psychosis" or "romantic roleplay" stuff. I think the same thing is also relevant when people use chatbots to form opinions on unknown subjects, politics, or to seek personal life advice.
- jameslk 10mo agoTelling people who are playing slot machines “it’s just a random number generator with fixed probabilities in a metal box” doesn’t usually work either
- rsynnott 10mo agoI feel like the average slot machine user is _far_ more aware of this than the average LLM user is of the nature of an LLM, tho. A lot of laypeople genuinely think that they think.
- measurablefunc 10mo agoI've tried that, it doesn't work. They want to hear that from a famous person & all the famous people are telling them these things are going to take all of their jobs & then maybe also kill everyone.