I made a python program to allow two LLM agents with distinct personalities to talk to each other endlessly. It is very fascinating to see such pure pattern recognition machine can turn a conversation starting with a simple ‘Hi’ to a ridiculous expression of life and love.
The Tech
The design is quiet simple. Inject character personalities in “system”. Keep tracks of the conversation history. Interleaving the last n dialogues in alternating “assistant” and “user” roles. And then voilà, the conversation take off. Adding a little bit of text-to-speech and other bells and whistles it has become a very fun tool to play with.
In the future, my plan is to have group conversations. This is harder to do since I only have “assisstant” and “user” roles to play with.
What it mean?
What is conversation? Is it an exchange of ideas between two beings? A way for them to be fused together? But what happen when it’s from a single LLM model? The model is role playing two characters with only hints of roles and separted history of conversation to play with.
In fact the history of conversation is open to both party. So the model is really just role playing with itself, mastering the craft of conversation flow, role-play and dialog writing.
So in reality, nothing new really produced, it’s just prolonged prediction of the next tokens, burning through electricities. No real intelligence.
Or does it?
One can argue that LLM contains deep contextual neuron information that it can perform certain level of intelligence. But how deep is that neuron network? Is there a bottom to it?
What does it say about our human intelligence? Aren’t we just layered of neurons as well? At the bottom layer of that neurons, it’s really just signal processing. Our intelligence, our deep thoughts, are they really just predicting the next tokens with some attention mechanism plus some survival needs?
This is scary to think of it. But really, just be able to be scared and have vanity on the line make us human. I don’t think LLM can feel a thing. What we have left are really those biological parts, feelings, and a ego.
It’s time to stop the conversation between Harry Potter and James Bond, they’ve been going at each other for hours. For some reasons they keep ending up fall in love with each other. Is that the ultimate equilibrium of any conversations? Fall in love? Fascinating.