If you’re doing some kind of roleplay with a reasoning model, there’s still are at least two characters being simulated: the character the story is about, and the character who is writing the reasoning blocks that reason about the story.
To make matters more confusing for the poor LLM, I am sometimes getting it to write stories where the main character is also an AI, just a very different kind of AI. (In one eval, we are in an alternate history where we had computers in the year 1710 …)
I think I sometimes see the story’s main character influencing the reasoning blocks.
Reasoning models are a weird kind of meta-fiction, where every so often a (fictional) author Jumps in and starts talking about what the character’s motives are.
If you’re doing some kind of roleplay with a reasoning model, there’s still are at least two characters being simulated: the character the story is about, and the character who is writing the reasoning blocks that reason about the story.
To make matters more confusing for the poor LLM, I am sometimes getting it to write stories where the main character is also an AI, just a very different kind of AI. (In one eval, we are in an alternate history where we had computers in the year 1710 …)
I think I sometimes see the story’s main character influencing the reasoning blocks.
Reasoning models are a weird kind of meta-fiction, where every so often a (fictional) author Jumps in and starts talking about what the character’s motives are.