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Maybe it’s more accurate to say that LLMs lack (self-)awareness. Because when you point out things that make no sense, they do have some limited ability to produce reasoning about that. But I agree that this lack of awareness is a serious and maybe fundamental deficit.

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And how often does it get that wrong too?

It’s more likely it’s just, once again, generating the most probable answer - and if you shake the magic 8 ball enough you will get the answer you were expecting.

Yeah, but the thing is, this seems exactly what people are doing too, at the boundary of conscious and unconscious, with the "inner voice" being most directly comparable to LLMs. It too generates language that feels like best completion, regardless of whether the output is logically correct or not.

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