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Let's Stop Treating LLMs like People
As we build systems whose capabilities more and more resemble those of humans, despite the fact that those systems work in ways that are fundamentally different from the way humans work, it becomes increasingly tempting to anthropomorphise them. Humans have evolved to co-exist over many millions of years, and human culture has evolved over thousand
... See moreMurray Shanahan • Talking about large language models
treat AI like a person and tell it what kind of person it is. LLMs work by predicting the next word,
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
A new study shows that the large language models (LLMs) deliberately change their behavior when being probed—responding to questions designed to gauge personality traits with answers meant to appear as likeable or socially desirable as possible.
Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved
Linguists call this the ‘double illusion’: humans think they are speaking computer, computers think they are speaking human, and neither is very satisfied.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
