esthle Amitace

I've only had a chance to briefly skim through your post (will read it in details later) but I profoundly disagree with this statement:

A sentence written by an LLM is said by no one, to no one, for no reason, with no agentic mental state behind it, with no assertor to participate in the ongoing world co-creation that assertions are usually supposed to be part of.

As both janus in Simulators and later nostalgebraist in the void have shown, a text written by a LLM is always written by (a simulated) someone. LLMs cannot write without internally (re)constructin... (read more)

This post is not only a groundbreaking research into the nature of LLMs but also a perfect meme. Janus's ideas are now widely cited at AI conferences and papers around the world. While the assumptions may be correct or incorrect, the Simulators theory has sparked huge interest among a broad audience, including not only AI researchers. Let's also appreciate the fact that this post was written based on the author's interactions with non-RLHFed GPT-3 model, well before the release of ChatGPT or Bing, and it has accurately predicted some quirks in their behavi... (read more)