+1 it’s a tool

It’s not perfect, it has shortcomings, it sometimes produces bogus outputs. All of that is fine for a tool, it’s not fine when it pretends it’s a conscious being, because errors start to feel like lies and it becomes a bit too personal.

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MSFT_Edging an hour ago | parent [-]

People want it to be Data from Star Trek, when it really should be the ship's computer. I want to tell it to run a simulation accurately, create some solved tool, etc.

I don't think there's any correction that can return LLMs to a purely tool-space. Too many AI boyfriend/girlfriends.

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cortesoft an hour ago | parent [-]

Shouldn't it be whatever the user wants? If they want the ship's computer, it should be that, if they want Data, it should be that.

	▲	MarkusQ an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You can want your e-scooter to be a jet ski, but you'll wind up having issues when you try to use it as one. LLMs are _really good_ at pretending to be something they aren't, but not always so good at being that thing, so you should be careful what you ask for.