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dantetheinferno | 2 years ago

One wonders if eventually - historians will plug all the content from a person's personal notes, their diary, their chat logs, into an LLM, and perform research by talking to the AI about the person's life?

If you trained an LLM against all the recorded discussions of Einstein - is it that different from talking to Einstein himself?

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MayeulC|2 years ago

In theory, you may be able to ask the LLM about the person's life, as if it was the person, but you won't get more facts out than you provide as input. It may still make up credible info.

Regarding your last question, it wil lack an enormous ammount of data that make up a person's experience. Moreover, talking to sound like <X> isn't the same as thinking like <X>.

It reminds me of the later part of the book Accelerando, where synthetic personalities made up from historical records (could be anyone from Cleopatra to Newton) keep being reincarnated in a near, post-singularity future. They are handed out an FAQ that tries to bring them up-to-date on the current state of affairs.

ent101|2 years ago

"If you trained an LLM against all the recorded discussions of Einstein - is it that different from talking to Einstein himself?"

Yes, his daily visual, touch, hearing, smelling, readings... perceptions will be missing from the model.

default_png|2 years ago

Meh, Just Mock thoes in later.

goodpoint|2 years ago

> If you trained an LLM against all the recorded discussions of Einstein - is it that different from talking to Einstein himself?

The fact that an LLM does not have the ability to think and understand things is a bit of a giveaway.

carlosjobim|2 years ago

Of course you can not do any research - discover new things - by doing this. The AI can only repeat what it has been fed or make up lies. You cannot discover new material by using AI.

ghaff|2 years ago

Probably yes. But doesn't sound that different in principle from the memory room in Scalzi's Interdependency series.

obblekk|2 years ago

One level further: the historian asking questions is itself an AI meaning as soon as primary sources are provided, interesting history insights flow out.