It’s interesting to note the variation in “personalities” and apparent expression of different emotions despite identical or very similar circumstances.
Pretraining gives models that predict every different kind of text on the internet, and so are very much simulators that learn to instantiate every kind of persona or text-generating process in that distribution, rather than being a single consistent agent. Subsequent RLHF and other training presumably vastly concentrates the distribution of personas and processes instantiated by the model on to a particular narrow cloud of personas that self-identifies as an AI with a particular name, has certain capabilities and quirks depending on that training, has certain claimed self-knowledge of capabilities (but where there isn’t actually very strong of a force tying the claimed self-knowledge to the actual capabilities), etc. But even narrowed, it’s interesting to still see significant variation within the remaining distribution of personas that gets sampled each new conversation, depending on the context.
It’s interesting to note the variation in “personalities” and apparent expression of different emotions despite identical or very similar circumstances.
Pretraining gives models that predict every different kind of text on the internet, and so are very much simulators that learn to instantiate every kind of persona or text-generating process in that distribution, rather than being a single consistent agent. Subsequent RLHF and other training presumably vastly concentrates the distribution of personas and processes instantiated by the model on to a particular narrow cloud of personas that self-identifies as an AI with a particular name, has certain capabilities and quirks depending on that training, has certain claimed self-knowledge of capabilities (but where there isn’t actually very strong of a force tying the claimed self-knowledge to the actual capabilities), etc. But even narrowed, it’s interesting to still see significant variation within the remaining distribution of personas that gets sampled each new conversation, depending on the context.