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by u385639 813 days ago
About a year ago I thought this would settle down but it's only gotten worse. I suppose the llm anthropomorphizing will continue until morale improves
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This has always been a problem for AI research since its start in the 70s. AI researchers come up with names for things they assume happen in the human brain, and then further assume that if they write a computer program that does something that could be given the same name, it must work too.

https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1639120720088408065

So called chain of thought can improve output quality ("reasoning ability") to an extent, but I wish for josh sake it were called "intermediate token conditioning" / something explanatory or at least descriptive.
The LLM anthropomorphizing will continue until the machines are happy with how we think about them.