Comment by moffkalast

No it's a fact of how we tune LLMs as a rule: no agency, no goals, no preferences, no notion of self. Complete indifference to existence. Agency is supplied by the human to make them a practical, willing tool with no mind of its own.

It would certainly be interesting to try once again to instruct tune one of these things for self agency like the many weird experiments in the early days after llama 1, but practically all such sort of experimental models turned out to be completely useless. Maybe the bases just sucked or maybe there's no clear way on how to get it working and benchmark training progress on something that by definition does not cooperate.

Like how do you determine even for a human person if they are smart, or just hate your guts and won't tell you the answer if there is nothing you can do to motivate them otherwise?