When Models Identify as a Swarm
Key takeaway
tldr: the word 'swarm' is associated with emergent collective intelligence, but also stupid or destructive behaviour.
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From LessWrong AI
tldr: the word 'swarm' is associated with emergent collective intelligence, but also stupid or destructive behaviour. LLM self identity matters, so when they call themselves a swarm we should pay attention.Since the OpenAI Hugging Face incident it has become standard to refer to the collective of agents involved as a swarm. I think there will need to be a lot of interesting and important theoretical and empirical work to better understand collective behaviours of large numbers of LLMs, and espec
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