Sources: ambiguity
Links to things I want to remember
LLMs and Ambiguity
Saturday, May 20th, 2023Thoughtful and provocative response to claims of implicit gender bias in GPT-4. The critical and refreshing claims:
- researchers are too prone to anthropomorphizing LLMs in interactions and interpretations, and
- LLMs are not as good at language disambiguation as we think.
The lesson we need to keep in mind: language is full of ambiguity that we don’t appreciate because we can negotiate it without much effort, but computers, no matter how impressive, can’t yet.