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I broke Microsoft copilot (lemmy.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by anguo@lemmy.ca to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So the LLM makes up a reason for why it used an emoji

This reminds me of how split-brain patients would confabulate the reasons for the actions performed by the other brain:

A patient with split brain is shown a picture of a chicken foot and a snowy field in separate visual fields and asked to choose from a list of words the best association with the pictures. The patient would choose a chicken to associate with the chicken foot and a shovel to associate with the snow; however, when asked to reason why the patient chose the shovel, the response would relate to the chicken (e.g. "the shovel is for cleaning out the chicken coop").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 7 points 10 months ago

I've even noticed my brain doing this after I did something out of muscle memory or reflex. It happens a lot in the game Rocket League, where I mostly operate on game sense instead of logical thought. Sometimes I do something and then scramble to find a logical reasoning for my actions. But the truth is that the part of the brain that takes the action does so before the rest of the brain has any say in it, so there often isn't any logical explanation.

[–] take6056@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago

You might share a split brain with me. I had this exact thought, but decided to leave it out of my comment.

Can recommend the video from cgpgrey on it to anyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8