The effect is not quite what you think it is, and people don't quite take the right lessons.
Similar to the eliza effect, people still take the original reading of Clever Hans: "he couldn't really do maths, he's just taking social cues from his handler"
But what's the actual difference between Eliza, Clever Hans and RLHF? They're doing the similar things, right?
Now look at how we valued that in the 20th vs 21st century:
How much does an ALU even cost anymore? even a really good one? (it's almost never separate anymore, usually on the same silicon as the rest of the cpu/microcontroller)
Meanwhile... what's the TCO to deploy a sentiment classifier? Especially a really good one?
Similar to the eliza effect, people still take the original reading of Clever Hans: "he couldn't really do maths, he's just taking social cues from his handler"
But what's the actual difference between Eliza, Clever Hans and RLHF? They're doing the similar things, right?
Now look at how we valued that in the 20th vs 21st century:
How much does an ALU even cost anymore? even a really good one? (it's almost never separate anymore, usually on the same silicon as the rest of the cpu/microcontroller)
Meanwhile... what's the TCO to deploy a sentiment classifier? Especially a really good one?