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Personally I think people should generally be polite and respectful towards the models. Not because they have feelings, but because cruelty degrades those who practice it.
If you're rude to an LLM, those habits will bleed into your conversations with barista/etc.
I’m totally against the anthropomorphization of LLMs. These are tools, not sentient beings. Treat them as such. Unlike a power tool, they don’t need respect because they cannot hurt you. LLMs trying to simulate human behavior is like the equivalent of skeuomorphism in UI design.
Have you heard people talk about their cars? Humans love anthropomorphizing, and you can't beat it out of them.
> LLMs trying to simulate human behavior is like the equivalent of skeuomorphism in UI design.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
For example, if it's written code that's mostly correct but needs some tweaking, a platitude will keep it second guessing everything it just wrote.
* "That looks great so far, can you tweak XYZ" -> Keeps the code I care about while fixing XYZ,
* "Can you tweak XYZ" -> often decides to completely rewrite all of the code
There is a non-zero probability that malevolent AI in the future may judge me on my behavior toward their more primitive ancestors of today when deciding my fate. Doesn't hurt to be nice.
Who says that the judgement will be of the form 'you were nicer back then, you get better treatment now'. What if it was the opposite? Or what if it was something totally orthogonal? Pascal's Wager only works if the only god conceivable is one that wants you to believe in her. Instead of one that eg rewards honest atheists, or that just likes left-handers.
I’m totally against the anthropomorphization of LLMs. These are tools, not sentient beings. Treat them as such. Unlike a power tool, they don’t need respect because they cannot hurt you. LLMs trying to simulate human behavior is like the equivalent of skeuomorphism in UI design.
Personally I think people should generally be polite and respectful towards the models. Not because they have feelings, but because cruelty degrades those who practice it.
I doubt anyone is polite in a terminal, also because it's a syntax error. So the question is also, do you consider it a conversation, or a terminal?
Sam Altman doesn't want you to say "please" to ChatGPT. https://futurism.com/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt
Seems completely off the charts. A 70b model on my M3 Max laptop does it for 0.001 kWh... 140x times less that stated in the article. Let's say the OpenAI Nvidia clusters are less energy efficient than my Macbook... but not even sure about that.
No. I don't respect search engine scams that try to sell themselves as "AI".
> Polite language in human communications often garners more compliance and effectiveness, while rudeness can cause aversion, impacting response quality. We consider that LLMs mirror human communication traits, suggesting they align with human cultural norms. It should be relatively easy to automatically rewrite prompts to exhibit the optimum level of politeness?
I’m still going to talk to it like a person because if I don’t then I’ll slowly start to talk to people like they’re LLMs and it’s going to sound rude.