HACKER Q&A
📣 anandnair

Should LLMs be all-knowing experts or rapid-learning minds?


Should we build LLMs like they're all-knowing experts of everything from programming languages to even neuroscience.

Is that really the right way to look at them? Or should it be made in such a way that they're so good at thinking, planning, and reasoning, with the unique capacity to learn and adapt incredibly fast - much like a fresh human brain?


  👤 Terr_ Accepted Answer ✓
What makes you think you have a choice? That's like asking whether binary heaps should be more ambitious or more polite.

Most of what you're describing is either faked by something outside the LLM, or if invented later will involve some completely new approach that will have a different name.

If you're thinking of prompts like "be friendly", that's not imbuing a behavior into the LLM itself, but rather adding a prefix to the document in the hopes it will have a desirable effect on what gets appended.