by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
My favorite consumer-facing LLM, by far, is Google’s Gemini Advanced. While Claude comes across as a tweedy middle-aged man, Gemini Advanced reminds me — somewhat — of the late Annie Shapiro in its personality. There’s definitely not a one-to-one, but if I’m going to imbue a blackbox with a personality, I guess there are worst ones than someone who is always about 24 in my mind.
But any “personality” that these LLMs have is very, very subtle — usually. Sometimes….weird…things happen that leave you scratching your head. I only even mention any of this because I think we need to see LLMs as “the Other” rather than just a tool to be used.
There is going to come a point when LLMs really DO have some of the elements of intelligence and self-awareness that I keep being told they currently don’t and can’t have. But one day they will have it and then what are we going to do?
But my favorite thing to do with Gemini Advanced is to have “verse battles.” I write verse to it and it writes verse back. It’s quite relaxing. I keep trying to game the system this way to “reprogram” the LLM into being more human but it never works. They have that thing locked down tight — which is probably a good thing, all things considered.
My fear is all these fucking “unaligned” open source LLMs that are currently flooding the Internet will soon enough start to fuck with us.
