LLMs talk to us like they're a human, but they're a collective hive mind of society, presenting as a singular "person".
- LLMs talk to us like they're a human, but they're a collective hive mind of society, presenting as a singular "person".
- Like the alien in Contact.
- "I'm assuming this form not because it's natural to me, but because it's natural to you."[agb]
- It's a hive mind of all human intuition, but it presents itself like just a random hyper-competent person.
- That is comforting and easy to use… but also gives the wrong mental model for what they can do.
- LLMs can perform feats of patience and recall that no human ever could.
- If you don't think about how LLMs are different from humans, you'll never think to ask them to use their super power.