We're afraid language models aren't modeling ambiguity
Not only is it possible that LLMs fail to differentiate ambiguity, but OpenAI’s flavor of GPTs fail other language understanding mechanisms as well and it’s jarring.<p>You can get it to mistake « afraid » between fear and sorry-to-say scenarios but you can even more easily get it to say that it doesn’t have personal opinions and yet express them anyway.<p>So which is it? It’s clear transformers can’t understand either case. They’re not architecturally designed to. The emergent behavior of appearing to do so is only driven by how much data you throw at them.