LLM Hive Mind: How an LLM Can Be Superstitious or Delusional
This sounds like the wisdom of crowds. My experience is this works for lowest common denominator problems not well if the choice has consequences that are hard to predict or favor a narrow set of beliefs that are widely held even if unhealthy. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17517https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17517 Is an LLM a hive mind? ChatGPT said: That’s a really interesting and thoughtful question. I think the short answer is: it’s complicated — there are some analogies between a large language model (LLM) and what people mean by a “hive mind” or “collective intelligence,” but important differences make the analogy only partial, and many researchers argue that calling an LLM a hive mind is misleading. I’ll break down where the analogy fits — and where it breaks — referencing recent research. ✅ Why an LLM could seem like a hive mind The notion of a “hive mind” or “group mind” often refers to a distributed system of many simple subunits (like ...