At 2024-11-09T14:46:45-0800, Mo Zhou wrote: > The tone can change: http://paste.debian.net/1335055/
I recognize a different style there...
> LLMs are being improved rapidly over time.
...but I'm not sure I would call the new example an improvement. With
all those exclamation marks it seems more like advertising or a similar
hyperventilating form.
> I guess it's due to some potential safety issues
Safety? As in human life and limb? If we're already entrusting AI-
generated text to the instruction of humans in potentially hazardous
situations, that could be enough to make even most wild-eyed anarchist
cry out for the heavy boot of government regulation.
I think Steve's point about hallucination should be taken seriously.
In any communication the construction of meaning is effectively a
negotiated process between the speaker and listener.[1] Humans have
evolved our capacity for this over tens of thousands of years, such that
one model of human language facility is a "mental organ".[2]
From what I've seen of LLM language output, it seems to reside in an
analogue to the "uncanny valley"; it closely resembles human language,
but the metaphorical point at which meaning is constructed shifts from
the site where discourses carried out by humans place it. (That such a
point is susceptible to shifting at all may be the one of the theses of
Derrida; all I can say for sure is that if it was, his English
translators seemed bent on proving the point by example.)
Chomsky's famous example of "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" has
the virtue of advertising (to most humans) that it is nonsense. The
construct of a network of Markov chains in a large number of dimensions
isn't necessarily so obvious.
> Those models should have been trained on different tones, as long as
> we instruct it to use them.
Has it got sliders for "Hunter S. Thompson" or "Christopher Hitchens"?
;-)
Regards,
Branden
[1] or reader/writer, in which case the "negotiation" is more static
than dynamic
[2] My favorite piece of supporting evidence is the spontaneous
development of sophisticated grammatical features by children in the
case of Nicaraguan Sign Language. This is one of the coolest
natural experiments ever to have taken place. Judy Shepherd-Kegl
should be awarded a prize for applying an ethic of non-interference
when so many others would have assumed a didactic one.
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