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> Gemini’s smug... Anthropomorphizing these systems is dangerous, whether coming from the bullish or bearish perspective. The output is statistically generated

> Gemini’s smug... Anthropomorphizing these systems is dangerous, whether coming from the bullish or bearish perspective. The output is statistically generated by a machine lacking the capability to be smug.

Jtarii 5mo ago
>Anthropomorphizing these systems is dangerous That ship has sailed. Humans will anthropomorphize a rock if you put googly eyes on it.
- bartvk 5mo ago
  First I thought to myself, "my daughter does this and it looks so cute". And only as a second thought, that your comment just proved itself.
DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
It's only "statistically generated" in the same way that your brain is just "neurons firing." That's the low-level description of what's happening, but on a higher level, it's correct to say that it's being smug.
- antisthenes 5mo ago
  > it's correct to say that it's being smug. It's not correct to say that it's being smug, because when people are being smug, we do it for a purpose - e.g. to signal higher social status or superior knowledge. A machine has no such imperative, so what you call 'being smug' is statistical mimicry.
  - DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
    The LLM has learned certain behaviors, including smugness. Its motivations for being smug may be different, but it's being smug nonetheless.
  - port11 5mo ago
    I suppose the model was trained in such a way, the smugness is a facsimile of reality. Other models offer concise, direct answers without these idiotic qualifiers.