They are not human. Humans have names, faces, voices, personality, a personal history, family, care for whatever they call their community.
With humans it's actually good and worthwhile to create and strengthen connections. With an LLM, that's psychosis.
To be fair: a voice, personality, and personal history sounds a lot like training data.
I don't think LLMs are people in any sense, at least as they're constructed now -- but they very much have what we would call "culture" and "personality" in suitably alien forms.
This is not the same as, e.g., feelings, experience, or humanity, or actual opinions or ideas (versus essentially "distilled vibes") and I feel that AI will more and more force us to confront that (including if new AIs are ever developed that may have the latter, as well!)
They are not human, but it helps to prompt them similarly. See: https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function
Good read. Thanks for sharing.
They're not human. But they are trained on human language, and thinking of them as similar to a human helps me work with them effectively.
These things passing the Turing Test makes anthropomorphizing their behavior awkward, but don’t forget it’s just an analogy to communicate an experience. If you convey a certain written voice to these models in your input, you get a somewhat consistent end effect. I think that’s all that is being communicated.
If you have a toolbox full of similar but different tool getting to know them is a prudent thing to do, not a psychosis. There's no connection because the tool is immutable (except for adjustments you made) but you do develop a specific relation with that tool. Some people even love some of their tools at some level.
And if humans are anything, they are tool users.
>If you have a toolbox full of similar but different tool getting to know them is a prudent thing to do, not a psychosis
Can be both. Use of some tools like LLMs might be more inducing psychosis than others like plain compilers or hammers.
>And if humans are anything, they are tool users.
To the point of self-destruction sometimes.
> Use of some tools like LLMs might be more inducing psychosis than others like plain compilers or hammers.
I really don't get it. Why the fact that it outputs words is so goddamn important for everybody? How does it suddenly make you so emotionally vulnerable? Does my brain work in a different way than the rest of humanity? Can't you disregard what's irrelevant? Is every programmer suddenly a trump supporter that has no ability to recognize empty words? To recognize lies about emotions and facts?
Words are just input. Mostly garbage. Emotion inducing words are garbage 10 times more often than any other. I could expect romance reader to be affected, or somebody with iq 70. But how the caste of some of the most technical people ever is afraid of catching psychosis just because they might read some words?
It's a certain percentage of people and yes it's different for them because it outputs words and triggers some kind of emotional trust response.
As good opportunity as any to acquire some emotional intelligence.
Yeah, AI tools bring software developers closer to the messy real world where 0 and 1 aren't always exactly 0 and 1.
Computing is useful for exactly going away from the messy real world of humans. I don’t need random errors in my financial transactions. I don’t want random errors when doctors are retrieving my medical history. And I don’t want random errors in my backup,… There’s plenty of non-deterministic things in my life, I don’t want my computer to follow suite.