Comment on Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure
lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is the problem with things that don’t reason. You’re just giving it hints towards the simulation you want, and then it ultimately simulates the conversation you are building towards.
nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Actually, they have been doing that for about a year now
arxiv.org/abs/2501.09686
lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No, just because they say they want it to reason, does not mean it does
nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think you have read the relevant papers or are familiar with LRM (Large Reasoning Models). Which is basically all model AIs (GPT5, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek). It’s new in the last ~18-24 months
In a nutshell, they include logical thinking and correct chains of logical thought to the LLM training data, along with tasks like recognizing dogs and predicting next words.
So yes, they are literally trained to reason the exact same way they are trained to write stories and summarize books.
lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I will 100% admit to not reading papers and keeping up to date. I went ahead and spent about 30m looking up various explanations and summaries of LRMs. Ok, so you take an LLM and tell it to break the problem down first. It’s still not reasoning. It’s running a simulation of a natural language conversation, and giving you the center of mass of the statistical distribution for the intermediate steps. Does this kinda sorta replicate the sounds a human makes? Absolutely. But it’s irresponsible and unethical to make any claims that this is a human like entity you can chat with, or that it is doing any reasoning.
When I get some time I’ll check this paper out: …cdn-apple.com/…/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf