Comment by TeMPOraL
17 hours ago
> I feel like this statement is too anthropomorphizing.
That's number one mistake preventing people from getting a good grasp of how LLMs work and how to use them effectively.
That is, not anthropomorphizing is the mistake. It gives people bad mental models.
LLMs are not people in general, but behaviorally and in terms of system design, they may as well be. They have same failure modes and cognitive characteristics humans have, and are very much unlike regular, non-ML software tools.
Not really sure what you mean, I have the view I presented and I'm able to use LLMs effectively. The understanding that they're not human allows me to treat them as such - I don't say please or sorry or thanks or other pleasantries, I just instruct them in the simplest most efficient way I can. Humans would find me rude, be annoyed if I give them lots of work for little benefit, and say the same things over and over etc.