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Ansible newsletter humorously questions LLM social inference

The latest release of Ansible, a science fiction newsletter, has been published. The newsletter includes a humorous anecdote about the potential for large language models (LLMs) to misinterpret social cues, specifically regarding the appropriate salutation for historical figures. AI

IMPACT Highlights the ongoing challenges in developing LLMs capable of nuanced social understanding and inference.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece from a newsletter discussing a humorous anecdote about LLMs.

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Ansible newsletter humorously questions LLM social inference

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    The latest Ansible is out - a science fiction newsletter that’s always worth a read, IMO. This bit made me laugh: “When will the LLMs that generate this slop le

    The latest Ansible is out - a science fiction newsletter that’s always worth a read, IMO. This bit made me laugh: “When will the LLMs that generate this slop learn to infer that, for example, George Griffith's dates 1857-1906 suggest he may be resistant to the chummy salutation '…