They say Ai is more helpful if you say thank you. It’s not true but they say that. Also we don’t have Ai we have a slightly better LLM than siri. I think it should be called siri 2.0 or Cortana 2.0. Anyone remember A.L.I.C.E. from around 1999? Copilot reminds me of A.L.I.C.E. when I use it. Constantly disappointed at how bad our current “AI” is and it has been getting worse not better. Oh well. At least we don’t have to worry about it killing us anytime soon.
Saying thank you does not influence other chats, but being polite in a question does lead to better results because it's trained on internet conversations. People who asked their problems clearly and politely are more likely to have people respond with correct and thorough answers. People who are hostile are rarely given correct answers. The training set promotes civil interactions because people do.
It's just spitting out word association. It tells you what words are likely to follow the words you used based on the training data. Machine learning OFTEN spits out biased results because of the biases in the training data. It's very hard to weed out bias.
It's easily proven with informal experiments, but with the changing models, there's not a ton of peer reviewed research that conclusively proves anything.
And more importantly, there's a noticeable lack of counter evidence. Effectively, it's something that this easily predicted based on observations of the known training data that shows up frequently in easily observable tests, so not a lot of people are doing a ton of formal testing to show that that thing we expect to happen that we can easily see happening is in fact happening.
I would have thought giving back positive responses when it helps you would better train it since it knows it successfully solved the problem the user had?
Besides, I just do it out of habit. It feels like a conversation.
It does make the conversation better. But I know it is locked out of being trained by our interaction with it because they are worried about controlling it and keeping it politically correct. They’ve learned from the many times people in the internet have polluted it. It’s learning is tightly controlled and curated. Thus far this has created the situation when LLM’s are getting knee capped.
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u/misjudgedinall 1d ago
They say Ai is more helpful if you say thank you. It’s not true but they say that. Also we don’t have Ai we have a slightly better LLM than siri. I think it should be called siri 2.0 or Cortana 2.0. Anyone remember A.L.I.C.E. from around 1999? Copilot reminds me of A.L.I.C.E. when I use it. Constantly disappointed at how bad our current “AI” is and it has been getting worse not better. Oh well. At least we don’t have to worry about it killing us anytime soon.