Comment by Aerroon
2 months ago
No. They don't have time preference like us, because (wall clock) time doesn't exist for them. An LLM only "exists" when it is actively processing a prompt or generating tokens. After it is done, it stops existing as an "entity".
A real world second doesn't mean anything to the LLM from its own perspective. A second is only relevant to them as it pertains to us.
Time for LLMs is measured in tokens. That's what ticks their clock forward.
I suppose you could make time relevant for an LLM by making the LLM run in a loop that constantly polls for information. Or maybe you can keep feeding it input so much that it's constantly running and has to start filtering some of it out to function.
You could put timestamps in the prompt.
That would still be time as it pertains to us. Even if I put time stamps into the chat all the LLM knows that it's some amount of time later - it can't actually do anything in the time between two prompts.