[lsedgwick]

fair. This was similarly amusing at least: > ERNIE’s opinions are surprising, to say the least. It believes the best American president is Richard Nixon:

Impressive to see the RLHF penetrate deep enough into concept maps to teach the model (surely implicitly!) that the best US President has to be whichever one normalized relations with China.

[hn8305823]

This result is fascinating. Surely the result of parsing local Chinese content which would naturally reflect positively on Nixon. Contrast that to most US-based opinions of his presidency.

The moral of the story is don't go seeking some sort of absolute or "hidden" truth from LLM's. As currently constructed, they are just a reflection of narratives they consumed during training (just like humans).

[fnordpiglet]

And interestingly it’s obsessively focused on Taiwan reunification, and seems to greatly overstate Nixons stance on it.

[lainga]

Maybe ERNIE's a John Adams fan.

All patriots were brothers once: / let us drink to the time / when they shall be brothers again. Gam bei!