[sixtram]

So you're saying I can absolutely have a deep, nuanced discussion with an LLM, as long as I don't ask how he arrived at his conclusions?

[Jensson]

You can also have a deep nuanced discussion with a rubber duck as long as you don't ask any questions it needs to respond to.

[user43928]

Have you not seen all the posts with claims that AI lies about its reasoning when asked to explain how it arrived at the output?

I would instead ask the model to explain how X works, whether it achieves Y, and why we cannot do Z instead.

That is how you have a discussion with the AI.

[sothatsit]

You can have a nuanced discussion with an LLM. But LLMs also have failure modes where they start making up justifications. The two are not mutually exclusive.

[pixl97]

>as long as I don't ask how he arrived at his conclusions?

So just the average US political discussion with a human then?