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intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Not sure what you mean by passive. It takes a hell of a lot of electricity to train one of these LLMs so something is happening actively.

I often interact with ChatGPT 4 as if it were a child. I guide it through different kinds of mental problems, having it take notes and evaluate its own output, because I know our conversations become part of its training data.

It feels very much like teaching a kid to me.

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luciole@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I mean passive in terms of will. Computers want and do nothing. They’re machines that function according to commands.

The way you feel like teaching a child when you feed input in natural language to a LLM is known as the ELIZA effect. To quote Wikipedia:

In computer science, the ELIZA effect is the tendency to project human traits — such as experience, semantic comprehension or empathy — into computer programs that have a textual interface. The effect is a category mistake that arises when the program’s symbolic computations are described through terms such as “think”, “know” or “understand.”

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