Comment by surgical_fire
20 hours ago
The pattern matching engine does not want anything.
If the training data gives incentives for the engine to generate outputs that reduce negative reaction by sentiment analysis, this may generate contradictions to existing tokens.
"Want" requires intention and desire. Pattern matching engines have none.
I wish (/desire) a way to dispel this notion that the robots are self aware. It’s seriously digging into popular culture much faster than “the machine produced output that makes it appear self aware”
Some kind of national curriculum for machine literacy, I guess mind literacy really. What was just a few years ago a trifling hobby of philosophizing is now the root of how people feel about regulating the use of computers.
The issue is that one group of people are describing observed behavior, and want to discuss that behavior, using language that is familiar and easily understandable.
Then a second group of people come in and derail the conversation by saying "actually, because the output only appears self aware, you're not allowed to use those words to describe what it does. Words that are valid don't exist, so you must instead verbosely hedge everything you say or else I will loudly prevent the conversation from continuing".
This leads to conversations like the one I'm having, where I described the pattern matcher matching a pattern, and the Group 2 person was so eager to point out that "want" isn't a word that's Allowed, that they totally missed the fact that the usage wasn't actually one that implied the LLM wanted anything.
Thanks for your perspective, I agree it counts as derailment, we only do it out of frustration. "Words that are valid don't exist" isn't my viewpoint, more like "Words that are useful can be misleading, and I hope we're all talking about the same thing"
You misread.
I didn't say the pattern matching engine wanted anything.
I said the pattern matching engine matched the pattern of wanting something.
To an observer the distinction is indistinguishable and irrelevant, but the purpose is to discuss the actual problem without pedants saying "actually the LLM can't want anything".
> To an observer the distinction is indistinguishable and irrelevant
Absolutely not. I expect more critical thought in a forum full of technical people when discussing technical subjects.
I agree, which is why it's disappointing that you were so eager to point out that "The LLM cannot want" that you completely missed how I did not claim that the LLM wanted.
The original comment had the exact verbose hedging you are asking for when discussing technical subjects. Clearly this is not sufficient to prevent people from jumping in with an "Ackshually" instead of reading the words in front of their face.
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Its not patterns engine. It's a association prediction engine.