> One very compelling argument against the idea that current gen LLMs have personal beliefs etc is that they don't have a feedback loop
Compelling counter-argument: due to neurological injury, some humans lose their ability to form new long-term memories (anterograde amnesia). Just like current LLMs, they lack a “feedback loop”. But, it is a mistake to say that just because such a person has lost the ability to change their personal beliefs, they therefore don’t have any. And, rather like such humans, LLMs used to have that ability but they lose it-when they are switched from training mode to inference mode
Compelling counter-argument: due to neurological injury, some humans lose their ability to form new long-term memories (anterograde amnesia). Just like current LLMs, they lack a “feedback loop”. But, it is a mistake to say that just because such a person has lost the ability to change their personal beliefs, they therefore don’t have any. And, rather like such humans, LLMs used to have that ability but they lose it-when they are switched from training mode to inference mode