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It is mind-boggling how profoundly people are mislead by the anthropomorphised UX.
An LLM output is a one-way transformation. What comes out is a result of the model, tuning and input. Changes in reality do not affect the model. Agentic workflows are combinations of one-way processes. Fantastic in what they’re meant for, but unable to reflect reality. This alone suffices for concluding an LLM doesn’t learn or reason.
A layman’s version of your question (kudos for the paper) is to make an LLM give a long and thorough answer to a serious question and then ask convincingly if it’s absolutely sure, and often, if not most of the time, it’ll fold with a mannerism and a completely different answer, and this includes frontier models with pro subscriptions. ”You’re absolutely right…”
Epistomologically, this should leave you little room to argue an LLM reasons, yet the human-feeling interface seems to fool us (and some play along for funding and other incentives) with character strings going in and out of a computer, perhaps even different computers on different continents between turns.
@flowersslop I feel like a good portion of humans have been exposed to enough historical data and futuristic fiction and research to be able to adapt well enough beyond 30 years no matter how drastic the changes.
Cool concept though
Pretty sure Australian soldiers die to defend our home, which is among the most successful multicultural countries. Yes we have some issues but in general we know what we have here and we will die to protect it. America is in the throes of an enormous schism right now and some work needs to be done to mend your divide. You know? a bit of give and take to show the willingness to work together without losing strength. Atm it appears to be a boiling pot full of hate.
@Sosowski Look how close this baby tech is to fabricating reality though. I see wood carved, metallic finish etc. Eventually it will probably be entirely indistinguishable from reality.
@Erebous227455@DJSnM Yeah. Obviously there is a limit. But people dont intuitively understand how far away 99% of these objects are from each other at any given time. And people usually take representations at face value, so giving the full picture is helpful.