Re:Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
by dragonwriter on Monday April 10, 2023 @11:42PM
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Honestly, I feel like the level of, um, I guess “hostile anthropomorphism” is the best term, here is…bizarre and off-putting.
LLMs aren’t people, they are components in information processing systems; adding additional components alongside LLMs to compose a system with some functionality isn’t “hand-holding” the LLM. Its just building systems with LLMs as a component that demonstrate particular, often novel, capacities.
And hand-holding is especially wrong because implementing these other components is a once-and-done task, like implementing the LLM component. The non-LLM component isn’t a person that needs to be dedicated to babysitting the LLM. Its, like the LLM, a component in an autonomous system.
LLMs aren’t people, they are components in information processing systems; adding additional components alongside LLMs to compose a system with some functionality isn’t “hand-holding” the LLM. Its just building systems with LLMs as a component that demonstrate particular, often novel, capacities.
And hand-holding is especially wrong because implementing these other components is a once-and-done task, like implementing the LLM component. The non-LLM component isn’t a person that needs to be dedicated to babysitting the LLM. Its, like the LLM, a component in an autonomous system.