Talking about Large Language Models
280 Citations•2022•
M. Shanahan
Communications of the ACM
Interacting with a contemporary LLM-based conversational agent can create an illusion of being in the presence of a thinking creature, yet such systems are fundamentally not like us.
Abstract
Interacting with a contemporary LLM-based conversational agent can create an illusion of being in the presence of a thinking creature. Yet, in their very nature, such systems are fundamentally not like us.