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by Kim_Bruning 72 days ago
Almost! They're merely making the claim of functional emotions and outright avoiding the thorny philosophical question of whether they're "real".

[ I've actually tried exploiting functional emotions in a RAG system. The sentiment scoring and retrieval part was easy. Sentiment analysis is pretty much a settled thing I'd say, even though the mechanisms are still being studied (see the paper we're discussing.

What I'd love to be able to do is be able to extract the vector(s) they're discussing, rather than outputting as text into the context]