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Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus? — mentioned by famouswaffles

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:44:44 GMT

>The difference is that an LLM isn't 1000 different intelligences. It's one intelligence, being asked to pretend to be 1,000 different people. No it's not. It does no good for a Language Model to configure a global persona. It needs to be able to predict text from wildly varying backgrounds and contexts. It's not pretending anymore than anything else it does is pretending. That's why experiments like the below actually work Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus? (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07543) Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to…

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Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus? — mentioned by famouswaffles

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:31:15 GMT

Is it ? What little research we have of this kind of phenomena points towards this being very valid. Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus? (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07543) Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples (https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06899)

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Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus? — mentioned by famouswaffles

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:06:15 GMT

Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus? (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07543) Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples (https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06899) There's been some research in this vain. To answer your question, seemingly very valid.

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