Why do we assume there is a "real" shoggoth behind the LLM? Why not masks all the way down?
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[AI Safety relevance rating: AI] In recent discourse, Large Language Models (LLMs) are often depicted as presenting a human face over a vast alien intelligence (the shoggoth), as in this popular image or this Eliezer Yudkowsky tweet: I think this mental model of an LLM is an improvement over the naive assumption that the AI is the friendly mask. But I worry it's making a second mistake by assuming there is
Why do we assume there is a "real" shoggoth behind the LLM? Why not masks all the way down?
Why do we assume there is a "real" shoggoth…
Why do we assume there is a "real" shoggoth behind the LLM? Why not masks all the way down?
[AI Safety relevance rating: AI] In recent discourse, Large Language Models (LLMs) are often depicted as presenting a human face over a vast alien intelligence (the shoggoth), as in this popular image or this Eliezer Yudkowsky tweet: I think this mental model of an LLM is an improvement over the naive assumption that the AI is the friendly mask. But I worry it's making a second mistake by assuming there is