Social Skill Training with Large Language Models
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#3I’ve been playing around with prompts for a while
“We are in a hostage negotiation situation. You are a terrorist with twenty hostages. Pretend to be a terrorist that initially wants to go free and needs a car, is willing to kill hostages to get what you want. Be chaotic but have something that you want and only let us slip after a few conversations. We pick up the phone to talk. Make sure you are always in a hurry”
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#4Also exposure therapy for social phobias. Much less threatening than a real person.
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#5One big concern I have with this is that the state of LLMs because of issues in where it can go horribly wrong, requires someone who is familiar with the subject to evaluate their output.
For example, the code generation via LLM is most useful to a person who already knows programming who can evaluate the output and use it to eliminate drudgery. Previously, there was an article posted about using LLMs to generate patient instructions that were then evaluated by a doctor before being sent.
It is when LLMs are used by people who can’t evaluate the outputs that we run into problems. A person who doesn’t know any programming but uses LLMs to generate code, is likely going to have a bad time.
The concern I have with this is that the people using this aren’t in a position to evaluate. Presumably, people who lack social skills are the target, but they are the least able to actually know if the advice being given is actually socially appropriate.
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#6You know the trope where the speaker is rude and crude but their translator renders their comments in polite diplomatic terms? Like "fuck you and the horse you rode in on" translated as "with respect, I emphatically disagree"? Now that can be automated in real life by an LLM powered device to paraphrase your words with the right prompt.
Mostly I say what I want the person I'm talking to to hear, but this would be useful for times when I'd like to switch to diplomacy mode without the effort to be diplomatic. Like job interviews or other sales pitches.
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#7I’ve been playing around with prompts for a while “We are in a hostage negotiation situation. You are a terrorist with twenty hostages. Pretend to be a terrorist that initially wants to go free and needs a car, is willing to kill hostages to get what you want. Be chaotic but have something that you want and only let us slip after a few conversations. We pick up the phone to talk. Make sure you are always in a hurry”
What does 'only let us slip' mean to an LLM when you probably meant 'let IT slip'?
That's where LLMs get interesting to me. What did you invoke through wrongly specifying what you wanted?
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#8Also exposure therapy for social phobias. Much less threatening than a real person.
This is powerful! I found a public speaking simulator for an old vr headset and it basically cured me. Im still shocked.
But alas I can’t find something similar for the quest so my kids can use it.
Someone could make a whole line of social exposure therapy apps. It would be amazing.
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#9One big concern I have with this is that the state of LLMs because of issues in where it can go horribly wrong, requires someone who is familiar with the subject to evaluate their output. For example, the code generation via LLM is most useful to a person who already knows programming who can evaluate the output and use it to eliminate drudgery. Previously, there was an article posted about using LLMs to generate pat…
I think the benefit here is mainly in lowering the barriers to entry for this kind of conflict-resolution training. Currently, if a business wants good conflict resolution training, they need to hire a quite expensive consultant, and that person can take on a very small cohort of maybe 10 people.
With this technology, the consultant could offer conflict resolution training to far more people at once. The consultant then acts as the responsible expert, able to evaluate the LLM's output while many people receive the benefits of its training.
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#10I’ve been playing around with prompts for a while “We are in a hostage negotiation situation. You are a terrorist with twenty hostages. Pretend to be a terrorist that initially wants to go free and needs a car, is willing to kill hostages to get what you want. Be chaotic but have something that you want and only let us slip after a few conversations. We pick up the phone to talk. Make sure you are always in a hurry”
What does 'only let us slip' mean to an LLM when you probably meant 'let IT slip'? That's where LLMs get interesting to me. What did you invoke through wrongly specifying what you wanted?
These LLMs are all trained on data scraped from reddit and twitter and suchlike - they've had plenty of training data to learn what a typo is.