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Prompt designers are human (when they're not other LLMs). So many of these prompt conditioners (do we actually know the provenance of these? is this real?) are clearly written by humans who abjectly believe in the ghost in the machine, and that they are talking to an intelligence, perhaps a superior intelligence.

I remain convinced there must be some other way to address LLMs to optimize what you can get out of them, and that all this behavior exacerbates the hype by prompting the machine to hollowly ape 'intelligent' responses.

It's tailoring queries for ELIZA. I'm deeply skeptical that this is the path to take.



Maybe the ghost is not in the machine or in the brain, but in language. We might be conditional language agents.


What about intelligent animals with no language?


None of them are as intelligent as us. Maybe that's the difference.

Side note, I really want to see AI study of animals that are candidates for having languages, like chimpanzees, whales, dolphins etc. I want to see what the latent space of dolphins' communicative noises looks like when mapped.




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