Never think of a large language model (LLM) as a thoughtful "real AI" or "human". Its e...

Never think of a large language model (LLM) as a thoughtful "real AI" or "human".

Its essence is just a super powerful "role-playing simulator".

It has no self-awareness and no perspective that is truly its own.

Instead of asking, “What do you think?

(because there’s no ‘you’),” Kapasi suggested, let it simulate a specific group of experts discussing the problem.

When you force it to talk to a human, it just puts on a "character vest" and acts for you based on the statistical probability of massive training data.

It's not thinking, it's playing complex word games based on probability.

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