Humans' behavior about LLMs is the same as animals with a mirror: they believe there is "another" in there. It's just their reflexion

Based on the fact that most people don't see their interaction with the LLM as gazing into the mirror, am I being led to believe that most people are not sentient???

Except it’s not their reflection, it’s a string of phrases presented to you based partly on the commonality of similar phrases appearing next to one another in the training data, and partly on mysterious black box modifications! Fun!

It's just a leading question.

I disagree about the dichotomy. I think you can (1) understand what LLMs actually are. (2) See the value of such technology.

In both cases being factual (not being deceived) and not being malicious (not attempting to deceive others)

I think a reasonable use of these tools is as a "sidekick" (you being the main character). Some tasks can be assigned to it so you save some time, but the thinking and the actual mental model of what is being done shall always be your responsibility.

For example, LLMs are good as an interface to quickly lookup within manuals, books, clarify specific concepts, or find the proper terms for a vague idea (so that you can research the topic using the appropriate terms)

Of course, this is just an opinion. 100% open to discussion.

Wait, let's hear OP out.

Marketing is a valid use for AI (because bullshit was always thewod anyway)

lol, Is that the same gorilla that you see in other bathrooms? Or (like me) you meet a new gorilla every time you wash your hands?

I've got a duck that prefers to dance in front of a chrome bumper or glass door where he can see his reflection than to go after any potential mates. Possibly he's worshipping the mirror. Possibly he's just really vain.

I love the idea of a bunch of woodland creatures (completely unaware of what mirrors are) investing heavily—and aggressively—in mirrors and mirror-related technology.

Or forming romantic attachments to the mirror

from page 7 of Joseph Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation (1976):

a pdf of the whole book is available here

Laughs in vampire

Unironically in certain cultures there is a superstition that you should cover your mirrors at night

Hahah, yeah, maybe I am doing that. that's why it is a shower thought, not a research paper proposal.

The thought comes from my (kind or recent) study of the algebra/calculus under LLMs (at least the feedforward and backpropagation part of them)

The interesting part is that my ass is non-differentiable at x=0:

Lim x→0⁺ δass/δx
≠
Lim x→0⁻ δass/δx

Annihilation?

Interesting take. Could you elaborate?

My post comes from the study of the algebra and stats that enable LLMs (well, part of it. i am not done with the "attention".

But they are a reflexion of ourselves. If you look at the algebra and stats underneath, you'll realize that they spit out whatever it is in us

Interesting!

pressing and holding the steam button tells u every steam shortcut

I think most people using them know that there's not something there, and yet when using it they'll still act as there is. Even giving it that benefit of doubt in what it outputs as valid, as if it's from another person, maybe even one who knows more than they do. So it's a gray area of "not believing".

This is nothing else than the reflexion I am talking about. It is not a reflexion of you, the person chatting with the bot, but an "average" reflexion of what humanity has expressed in the data llms have been trained on.

If a mirror is placed in front of another mirror, the "infinite tunnel" only exists in the mind of the observer.

No.

That's basically a very advanced flea circus.