A tremendous amount of research is going into creating the illusion that an LLM is a sentient person. As I’m sure you know, there are many lucrative commercial uses for an LLM that can “pass” as human.<\/p>\n
But suppose we had a different goal. Suppose we wished to communicate with our fellow humans in a way that no LLM could follow.<\/p>\n
Could we define a type of communication that would only work human-to-human? To the humans interacting with one another, it would all make perfect sense. But if an LLM happened to be listening, it would find the the resulting communication to be incomprehensible.<\/p>\n
More tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A tremendous amount of research is going into creating the illusion that an LLM is a sentient person. As I’m sure you know, there are many lucrative commercial uses for an LLM that can “pass” as human. But suppose we had a different goal. Suppose we wished to communicate with our fellow humans in a … Continue reading “Aliens on Earth, part 2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27675,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674\/revisions\/27675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}