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m1keil | 10 months ago

I hope we will exit this stage of magic spells and incantations sooner rather than later.

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ffsm8|10 months ago

Maybe we will get to Babylon 5s reality of having literal tech wizards or whatever they were called - which summon "demons" etc

slowmovintarget|10 months ago

Technomages. They were humans (and some others) bonded to Shadow-manipulated creatures that could affect spacetime. Technomages learned to "cast spells" in a private language they developed with their symbiote. These were essentially commands to "do the thing I'm talking about."

One of the challenges Technomages faced after acquiring their symbiote is gaining control over both the personal language and the impulses for destruction embedded by the Shadows (bias? bias).

So yes, learning the tricks of getting our AI agents to do the thing we actually meant, while aiming to overcome bias built in to the models when we can see it does sound an awful lot like Technomages dealing with their symbiote.

4b11b4|10 months ago

I thought that earlier on, I don't think we will though

patcon|10 months ago

Sincerely, I respect your response to how arbitrary it seems in this form.

But... I'd like you to take a moment and think really hard about whether this is truly novel behavior for LLMs, or rather something that has always been part of the interplay between inter-agent communication and intra-agent thought :)

bee_rider|10 months ago

It sounds like it is a “specific phrase mapped directly” based on another comment here? I guess that means hardcoded? Not completely sure, though.