alt Hacker NewsI agree with you in concept, but it's still 100% category error to talk like this.
AIs don't have souls. They don't have egos.
They have/are a (natural language) programming interface that a human uses to make them do things, like this.
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I read this as "ego" being a reflection of the creator, not a property of the llm.
Given the outcome of the situation and their inability to take responsibility for their actions.
> I agree with you in concept, but it's still 100% category error to talk like this.
It's a category error heavily promoted by the makers of these LLMs and their fans. Take an existing word that implies something very advanced (thinking, soul, etc.) and apply it grandiosely to some bit of your product. Then you can confuse people into thinking your product is much more grand and important. It's thinking! It has a soul! It's got the capabilities of a person! It is a a person!
Within the framing that it's all fundamentally a make-document-longer algorithm, I propose "seed document."
While there's some metaphor to it, it's the kind behind "seed crystals" for ice and minerals, referring to non-living and mostly-mathematical process.
If someone went around talking about how the importance of "Soul Crystals" or "Ego Crystals", they would quite rightly attract a lot of very odd looks, at least here on Earth and not in a Final Fantasy game.