>Anyone who would follow a mistake like that up with demanding a confession out of the agent is not mature enough to be using these tools. Lord, even calling it a "confession" is so cringe. The agent is not alive. The agent cannot learn from its mistakes

The problem is millions of years of evolutionary wiring makes us see it as alive. Even those mature enough to understand the above on the conscious level, would still have a subconscious feeling as if it's alive during interactions, or will slip using agency/personhood language to describe it now and then.

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anon84873628 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They should at least stop responding in the first person.

	▲	nozzlegear 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's one of the first instructions in my system prompt when I'm working with an LLM: > Do not reply in the first person – i.e. do not use the words "I," "Me," "We," and so on – unless you've been asked a direct question about your actions or responses. It's not bulletproof but it works reasonably well.
	▲	kibwen an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		We need to make like Japanese and come up with some neo-first-person-pronouns for bots to use to refer to themselves.

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smrtinsert 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> The problem is millions of years of evolutionary wiring makes us see it as alive

Maybe for laymen, but I would think most technologists should understand that we're working with the output of what is effectively a massive spreadsheet which is creating a prediction.

	▲	coldtea an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The thing with evolutionary wiring is that it doesn't matter if you're layman or "technologist". The technologist part is just a small layer on top of very thick caveman/animal insticts and programming. That's why a technologist can, just as easily as any layman, get addicted to gambling, or do crazy behaviors when attracted by the opposite sex.
	▲	DiogenesKynikos an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The same could be said for your brain. LLMs are highly intelligent. Comparing them to spreadsheets is reductionist and highly misleading.