points by 4ndrewl 3 days ago | 0 comments
"explicitly stated that zero tools would be triggered"
When are people going to stop anthropomorhizing these things and accept that they're bullshit machines?
Often useful, sometimes wrong, the words exist outside of any notion of ethics, or truth.
[–] pizza234 3 days ago
[–] 4ndrewl 3 days ago
They don't! They may appear to make untruthful statements, but they're making them without any reference to a concept of truth.
"make no mistakes"
[–] pizza234 1 day ago
No, this is false.
See here: https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.68/ ("The Internal State of an LLM Knows When It’s Lying").
Well, anthropomorhizing is actually a fitting way of thinking AIs: they lie like humans do.