> in between rows full of numbers, the text suddenly changes
To tweak the analogy slightly, the person would also need to be on mind-altering drugs, if we want them to be derailed the same way an LLM can be.
A healthy human would still be aware of the simultaneous different ways of interpreting the data, and and the importance of picking the right one. If they choose to interpret it as a cry for help, they're aware it's an interruption and mode-switch from what was happening before.
In contrast, with LLMs we haven't built thinking machines as much as dreaming ones. Your dream-self recovered the poster that was stuck on the elephant's tusk, oh look that's a pirate recruitment poster, now you're on a ship but can't raise the anchor because...
> A healthy human would still be aware of the simultaneous different ways of interpreting the data, and and the importance of picking the right one. If they choose to interpret it as a cry for help, they're aware it's an interruption and mode-switch from what was happening before.
So would an LLM, as far as you can tell (in both cases, you'd have to ask, and both human and LLM would give you a similar justification). But even if not, the problem we're discussing applies to what you described as "healthy human" behavior.
You can't introduce a hard boundary between "system" and "user" inputs in LLMs any more than you could do with a human, for roughly the same reasons.
To tweak the analogy slightly, the person would also need to be on mind-altering drugs, if we want them to be derailed the same way an LLM can be.
A healthy human would still be aware of the simultaneous different ways of interpreting the data, and and the importance of picking the right one. If they choose to interpret it as a cry for help, they're aware it's an interruption and mode-switch from what was happening before.
In contrast, with LLMs we haven't built thinking machines as much as dreaming ones. Your dream-self recovered the poster that was stuck on the elephant's tusk, oh look that's a pirate recruitment poster, now you're on a ship but can't raise the anchor because...