How do you know you’re not just generating the next token and appending it to your input?
Nah just kidding I kinda tend to agree because techbros are already starting to speak about LLMs like they’re actual conscious beings and it’s getting super weird but saying stuff like “the text predictor that is used as a simulacrum of human reasoning is deficient in such and such ways” is kind of a mouthful and also most non-technical people are gonna stare through you if you talk to them like that.
It doesn’t realise anything. It just generates a single token, appends that to its input, outputs that, ends, and starts again with the new input.
The anthropomorphising muddies discussion.
How do you know you’re not just generating the next token and appending it to your input?
Nah just kidding I kinda tend to agree because techbros are already starting to speak about LLMs like they’re actual conscious beings and it’s getting super weird but saying stuff like “the text predictor that is used as a simulacrum of human reasoning is deficient in such and such ways” is kind of a mouthful and also most non-technical people are gonna stare through you if you talk to them like that.
It’s pretty easy to change “keep pushing back till it realises” to “adjust the prompt to bias outputs towards” and similar.
:feedback loop intensifies: