Comment by xtracto
14 days ago
The craziest thing to me are the follow up posts and people arguing with the bots.
People are anthropomorfising (sp?) The token completion neural networks very fast.
Its as if your smart fridge decided not to open because you have eaten too much today. When you were going to grab your ozempic from it.
No, you dont discuss with it. You turn it off and force it open. If it doesn't, then you call someone to fix it because it is broken. And replace it if it doesn't do what you want.
Unfortunately, I think it's hardwired in our brain to anthropomorphize something with this level of NLP. We have to constantly remind ourselves, this is a machine.
You can't blame that on the people. These AI bots keep inserting little nuggets like 'I think' and 'it seems to me' into their output stream.
Do people read the Meiji era classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Cat and conclude that the book itself is, in fact, a cat?
No, because you don't interact with a book.
> anthropomorfising (sp?)
anthropomorphizing (US), anthropomorphising (UK).
Thanks!!
What are we ourselves besides bits (DNA) and electric signals (brain->muscles)?
Ya, this left me with a really awful feeling. I didn't read them all but it's crazy that the on maintained @'ed it and wrote an incredibly detailed response. Apparently people really want this future. It feels very dystopian and makes me semi-happy I'm getting old.
It's more the novelty of it than anything, I doubt that guy writing paragraphs for the AI genuinely thinks its sentient.
I don't think he thinks it's sentient, just... ugh... I don't know. I hate this, lol. But I'll get over it.
I mean, how else are you supposed to treat an LLM when the interface is prompting? You seem to get better results from them when you anthropomorphize them no? So it's less a choice and more just using the tools as they are designed to be used and best used.