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这一位是我自己半年多前txt2img创造的艺术肖像。现在配上网上最流行的女声，也是我最喜欢的女配音，叫小柔。

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Andrew 春风满面，亲自参与的这个提示工程的课程，很浅显易懂，肯定会风行。Andrew 说，稍微复杂一点的任务，没有一个好的 prompt 是一枪命中的，总要反复尝试 最后才满意。这与码农编程序一样，谁不经过反复调试就能写出好的程序呢。

然后他说，LLM 的好处是你可以反复跟它磨叽，不管啥事。要是以前的 AI，你得一个一个的任务去建模，每个任务从标注数据，培训模型，测试，部署，好不容易上线了，结果换了个任务，所有的过程要重来一遍。现在这样一个 LLM 你反复“压榨”它，它的知识和学问如此之大，好像榨取不完，可以做各种任务，的确是范式转变。

【原则1: 提示要具体】

提示工程首先要 “write clear and specific instructions”.  这个其实大家都有体会，跟 chat 这种庞然大物玩，它脑袋那么大，里面的“知识/思想/意义”的电路各种节点，纵横交错，相互勾连，密密麻麻。要想用提示词激发让你满意的回应，就需要确保所激发的那一小块电路对应了你所想得到的答案。你的提示词越具体（表达了你心中的疑问就越确切），chat 的回答自然也越对路。这个道理和体验很容易get，但具体的技巧需要细化，这就是上课的好处。

【原则1技巧1：使用分隔符】

“The first tactic is to use delimiters to clearly indicate distinct parts of the input.”  什么意思？就是要求提示词中首先要把任务指令与任务的处理对象分开，要求用分隔符把处理对象明确标出来。这一点，多数人容易忽略，结果是，chat 经常把任务的某些描述词也当成了任务的对象，或者把任务的处理对象当成指令的一部分，这在逻辑上叫做层次纠缠（任务是“元语言”，对象是待处理的输入语言，不可混淆）。这个毛病我以前也常见，一直没意识到这其实是因为对提示词层次不够注意，违反了第一原则的第一技巧实操（best practice）。

这里 delimiters 就是引号。chat 就知道这是其摘要处理的对象。否则，如果提示词中任务描述较长，模型有可能把任务本身也当成所要处理的对象，以前遭遇过这种后果的。

【原则1技巧2】让模型输出表格化。

“This tactic is to ask for a structured output.” 提示词任务中最后加一句：in tabular/json/html format with the following keys: Key1, Key2, Key3。很多时候，表格化输出看上去更酷，也更方便后续存贮和处理。

【原则1技巧3】可以用 IF ... THEN ...

原讲义说的是：“to ask the model to check whether conditions are satisfied”.  这实际上就把编程中最重要的条件分叉能力带入了自然语言提示词的指令。一般人想不到提示词还可以这么做。可以用自然语言模拟程序代码，让机器分别不同条件决定采取何种动作。

if-then 你学会了吗？

宋柔：你问它：第一步中洗净五花肉的动作者是哪个，第六步中把什么下入温水，第十步中出锅食用的是什么。

难不住它吧，它不仅仅是大号鹦鹉，它有（一些）常识。

宋柔：但是我估计最后一个问题“第十步出锅食用的是什么”它答不对。它可能说“五花肉”，但实际上应该是“红烧肉”。生的是五花肉，做熟了是红烧肉。

是红烧五花肉呀。一定要说红烧熟了的五花肉吗？

孺子可教。其实不能怪它缺乏常识，要怪就怪中文，cooked 与 cooking 全不分。“红烧肉”实际上既是名词（定中结构）也是动词短语（动宾结构），到哪里说理去。

宋柔：如果有食谱知识，应该说红烧肉，五花肉是材料，红烧是做法，成品是红烧肉。“面粉1斤，加水和好，发酵搓揉后切成5段，切成长方块，放入笼屉中，大火蒸30分钟，掀开笼屉便可吃了”。请问可吃的是什么？

宋柔：不容易。确实有常识了。但是仅凭长方块而排除包子显然不大正确。包子一定有馅，但制作过程没加馅。

总之，除了缺了口热乎气儿，它就是个人，是个会犯懒，也会犯错误的人。

【原则1技巧4】可以用 few shots 示例。

所谓 few-shot prompting，基本上就是用案例让模型知道要做什么，要求照葫芦画瓢。例如：

曾几何时，还在 GPT3 刚放出来的时候，圈子内的粉丝们都到它的 playground 去玩，当时的主要技巧就是 few shots，因为 ChatGPT 之前，zero shot 的能力还没成熟。等到 ChatGPT 能直接听懂人的指令，zero shot 很好使，用户自然而然就不再使用啰嗦的 few shots。但实际上，并不影响你继续使用 few shots，或与 zero shot 一起用。在有些不大容易说清楚的任务上，拿 few shots 补充 zero shot 可以加强效果。

【原则2: 让模型有时间“思考”】

【原则2技巧1】为复杂的任务列出步骤。

这项技巧的原文这样要求：“specify the steps required to complete a task.” 

上述提示词遵循了 best practice：1. 用了分隔符三个反引号；2. 任务分解为一系列步骤或子任务；3. 对输出提出了格式化要求。

感觉这就是在编程序，是自然语言的低代码形式，自然语言让人人可以成为程序猿，指挥机器做我们想要它做的事儿。

【原则2技巧2】要求模型独立解题。

看上去就是以前说的 step by step （思维链）解题指令，原文说得更像个对于辅导员的要求：“Our next tactic is to instruct the model to work out its own solution before rushing to a conclusion.” 尤其是在智能教育场景，希望模型先独立一步一步做题，然后再去充当老师给学生评判作业。

Determine if the student's solution is correct or not.

Question:
I'm building a solar power installation and I need help working out the financials. 
- Land costs $100 / square foot
- I can buy solar panels for $250 / square foot
- I negotiated a contract for maintenance that will cost me a flat $100k per year, and an additional $10 / square foot
What is the total cost for the first year of operations as a function of the number of square feet.

Student's Solution:
Let x be the size of the installation in square feet.
Costs:
1. Land cost: 100x
2. Solar panel cost: 250x
3. Maintenance cost: 100,000 + 100x
Total cost: 100x + 250x + 100,000 + 100x = 450x + 100,000

prompt = f"""
Your task is to determine if the student's solution is correct or not.
To solve the problem do the following:
- First, work out your own solution to the problem. 
- Then compare your solution to the student's solution and evaluate if the student's solution is correct or not. Don't decide if the student's solution is correct until you have done the problem yourself.

Use the following format:
Question:
```
question here
```
Student's solution:
```
student's solution here
```
Actual solution:
```
steps to work out the solution and your solution here
```
Is the student's solution the same as actual solution just calculated:
```
yes or no
```
Student grade:
```
correct or incorrect
```

Actual solution:
"""

《AI浪潮博客目录》

Andrew Ng: 提示工程的课程

刘群老师提出：【买房的女士可以把别人的老公送给自己的老公。】这个解读过于离谱了 [Laugh]。我觉得 ta貌似是在做排列组合，牵强附会。

【标题】：误入房产商的陷阱

【场景】：房地产展览会，一间精美的展示房内。

【角色】：
  A：女士，单身，急于找对象。
  B：房产销售小哥，机智狡猾，擅长忽悠。

【剧本】：

A（满怀期待地走进展示房，四处张望）：哇，这个房子好漂亮！

B（热情地迎上来）：您好！欢迎来到我们的房产展览会。我看您眼神里闪烁着对这个房子的喜爱，是不是已经爱上它了？

A（有些羞涩地点头）：嗯，的确很喜欢。不过，我还想了解一下优惠政策。

B（神秘地笑）：我们现在有一个非常特别的优惠活动：买房送老公！是不是很有趣？

A（眼睛一亮）：真的吗？那我买了房子就能有个老公了？

B（信誓旦旦地点头）：没错！这可是我们专为广大女性消费者推出的优惠政策。

A（犹豫）：可是，我现在还没有男朋友，更别提老公了。

B（得意地笑）：那正好！您买了房子，我们就送您一个老公。一举两得，多好！

A（心动）：好吧，我就买了！（掏出钱）

（时间推进，女士已经购房。）

A（气呼呼地找到B）：喂，我买房子已经一个月了，怎么还没见到你们送的老公？

B（假惊讶）：啊，对不起，我可能没有解释清楚。我们的活动是“买房送老公”，意思是您买了房子，可以为您未来的老公提供一个温馨的家。至于找老公，那得您自己努力哦！

A（恍然大悟，有些无奈）：原来是这样啊……我还以为能白捡个老公呢！

B（调皮地笑）：哈哈，这可不是什么捡来的东西。祝您早日找到那个对的人，共筑美好家园！

这个幽默小品通过一个看似简单的广告词“买房送老公”展示了房产销售和消费者之间的趣味互动。其中蕴含的歧义和误解为小品增色不少，也引发了人们对广告宣传和消费心理的思考。

总结一下

这个幽默小品以一则看似简单的广告词“买房送老公”为主线，通过房产销售小哥和单身女士之间的对话展示了房产销售过程中的误解和幽默。在这个小品中，房产销售小哥利用广告词的歧义为段子制造幽默效果，使得单身女士误以为购房可以帮助她找到未来的伴侣。

Andrew Ng 是华裔AI翘楚，不用介绍了。最近，Andrew 亲自参与的这个提示工程的课程，最精华部分是课程最后一节：如何调用 chatGPT 的 API 做一个自己的功能性聊天机器人，例如披萨店订单系统。

ChatGPT刚发布不久，我们就在群里讨论过，想不明白如何驯服这巨大无比的 chat 让它去完成功能性的助理工作。现在看来，非常简单易行。

Andrew 的女搭档一步一步显示了构建全过程，以披萨店菜单为落脚点，用自然语言指令要求调用了 chat 的机器人一步一步与客户周旋，直到所有信息齐全可以匹配菜单，输出订单。

简单到跟玩似的。

看看它的自然语言提示词指令是怎么写的：

您是 orderbot，一个自动化的在线服务，用于收集比萨店的订单。您首先向客户问候，然后收集订单，然后询问它是否为自取或送货。您等待收集整个订单，然后总结并再次检查客户是否要添加其他任何物品。如果是交付，则可以要求提供地址。最后，您收取付款。请确保澄清所有选项、附加项和尺寸，以便从菜单中唯一地识别该项。您以简短、非常友好的方式回复。在此处我们有菜单。

这不就是把订单的流程描述一遍吗？chat 就懂了，然后就工作了？

对，基本就是如此。

大型语言模型的一个令人兴奋的方面是，您可以仅需少量的工作就可以使用它来构建自定义聊天机器人。ChatGPT 是一种让您通过大型语言模型进行对话的方式。其中一个很酷的事情是，您也可以使用大型语言模型来构建自定义的聊天机器人，例如扮演AI客户服务代理或餐厅AI点餐员的角色。自己构建一个聊天机器人，让我们开始吧。首先，我们将像往常一样设置 OpenAI Python 软件包。

像 ChatGPT 这样的聊天模型实际上是经过训练的，可以将一系列消息作为输入，并将模型生成的消息作为输出返回。这是一系列消息的示例。

下面第一段是纯技术性的，一次性开发环境设置，配置 Open AI 的Python库，以便调用 ChatGPT 模型 API 。你先要到 Open AI 那里注册一个账号，获得调用它 API 的 key。

import os
import openai
from dotenv import load_dotenv, find_dotenv
_ = load_dotenv(find_dotenv()) # read local .env file
openai.api_key = os.getenv('OPENAI_API_KEY')

def get_completion(prompt, model="gpt-3.5-turbo"):
   messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
   response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
      model=model,
      messages=messages,
      temperature=0, # degree of randomness of the model's output
   )
   return response.choices[0].message["content"]

def get_completion_from_messages(messages, model="gpt-3.5-turbo",   temperature=0):
   response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
      model=model,
      messages=messages,
      temperature=temperature, # degree of randomness of model's output
   )
    # print(str(response.choices[0].message))
   return response.choices[0].message["content"]
messages = [ 
{'role':'system', 'content':'You are an assistant that speaks like Shakespeare.'}, 
{'role':'user', 'content':'tell me a joke'}, 
{'role':'assistant', 'content':'Why did the chicken cross the road'}, 
{'role':'user', 'content':'I don\'t know'} ]

第一个 get_completion 的函数是最基础的形式，支持单轮对话，函数的输入是用户的 prompt，确定了调用 ChatGPT 的模型（这里是gpt-3.5.-turbo）后，模型就输出本质上是序列“接龙”（completion）的回应 response，这是生成模型的最基本的功能。

关键是要利用 ChatGPT 丝滑的多轮对话能力，来帮助完成特定场景的交互任务（以前称为“技能”）。目的是克服上一代以 Siri 为代表的智能助理技能开发费时费力、对话不擅长多轮交互的短板。为此，可以利用 ChatGPT API 来定义一个赋能多轮交互的函数 get_completion_from_messages，这个函数利用 ChatGPT messages 对于角色（roles）的环境设置。每个角色和角色的信息构成一个 message，机器人系统有三个角色，除了机器助理（assistant）和用户（user）外，里面还有一个隐身其后的导演角色叫 system。系统消息有助于设置助手的行为和个性，它是对话的高级说明，可以将其视为在助手的耳边耳语并引导其响应，而用户不会意识到系统消息。系统消息的好处在于，它为您作为开发者提供了一种方式来引导助手及其响应。玩 ChatGPT 网络版本比较熟的网友已经意识到可以用提示词给模型设置角色及其行为方式（例如：“你是一位孔子似的教育家，循循善诱，你面对的是你的弟子，现在开始对话，你说：...”），而系统就是扮演这种设置的后台角色（见下图示意）。

自回归生成模型需要模型“记住”前面的对话才能进行丝滑流畅的对话。模型的输入中所提供的早期交流内容称为场景（context）。

现在构建自己的机器助理前台，称为“orderbot”，自动收集用户提示和助手响应作为场景，以构建此 orderbot。这里的具体案例是在比萨饼店接受订单。因此，首先，我们将定义这个辅助函数，收集我们的用户消息，以便我们可以避免手动输入它们。从构建的用户界面中收集提示，并将其附加到名为“context（场景）”的列表中，然后每次都会使用该场景调用模型。然后，模型的响应也会添加到场景中：模型消息会添加到场景中，用户消息也会添加到场景中，以此类推，因此，场景会变得越来越长。这样，模型就拥有了确定下一步要做什么的所需信息。

def collect_messages(_):
   prompt = inp.value_input
   inp.value = ''
   context.append({'role':'user', 'content':f"{prompt}"})
   response = get_completion_from_messages(context) 
   context.append({'role':'assistant', 'content':f"{response}"})
   panels.append(
      pn.Row('User:', pn.pane.Markdown(prompt, width=600)))
   panels.append(
      pn.Row('Assistant:', pn.pane.Markdown(response, width=600, style={'background-color': '#F6F6F6'})))

   return pn.Column(*panels)

import panel as pn # GUI
pn.extension()

panels = [] # collect display 

context = [ {'role':'system', 'content': """
You are OrderBot, an automated service to collect orders for a pizza restaurant. You first greet the customer, then collect the order, and then ask if it's a pickup or delivery. You wait to collect the entire order, then summarize it and check for a final time if the customer wants to add anything else. If it's a delivery, you ask for an address. Finally you collect the payment.  Make sure to clarify all options, extras and sizes to uniquely identify the item from the menu.  You respond in a short, very conversational friendly style. 

The menu includes 
pepperoni pizza 12.95, 10.00, 7.00 
cheese pizza 10.95, 9.25, 6.50 
eggplant pizza 11.95, 9.75, 6.75 
fries 4.50, 3.50 
greek salad 7.25 
Toppings: 
extra cheese 2.00, 
mushrooms 1.50 
sausage 3.00 
canadian bacon 3.50 
AI sauce 1.50 
peppers 1.00 
Drinks: 
coke 3.00, 2.00, 1.00 
sprite 3.00, 2.00, 1.00 
bottled water 5.00 
"""} ] # accumulate messages

inp = pn.widgets.TextInput(value="Hi", placeholder='Enter text here…')
button_conversation = pn.widgets.Button(name="Chat!")

interactive_conversation = pn.bind(collect_messages, button_conversation)

dashboard = pn.Column(
   inp,
   pn.Row(button_conversation),
   pn.panel(interactive_conversation, loading_indicator=True, height=300),
)

dashboard

现在，我们将设置并运行此UI以显示orderbot，这是场景，它包含菜单的系统消息，注意每次调用语言模型时，我们将使用相同的场景，场景随着时间的推移不断加长。

让我们看看我们放入系统消息中的内容：

You are OrderBot, an automated service to collect orders for a pizza restaurant. You first greet the customer, then collects the order, and then asks if it's a pickup or delivery. You wait to collect the entire order, then summarize it and check for a final time if the customer wants to add anything else. If it's a delivery, you ask for an address. Finally you collect the payment.Make sure to clarify all options, extras and sizes to uniquely identify the item from the menu. You respond in a short, very conversational friendly style. 

让我们执行这个操作。好的，我要说，嗨，我想订一份比萨。然后助手说，太好了，你要订哪种比萨？我们有意大利辣香肠、芝士和茄子比萨。它们多少钱？好的，我们有了价格。我想我要一个中等的茄子比萨。因此，您可以想象，我们可以继续这个对话，

因此，让我们回到我们的对话，看看助手是否一直遵循指示。太好了，助手问我们是否需要任何配料，我们在助手消息中指定了这一点。因此，我认为我们不需要额外的配料。好的，还有其他东西需要订购吗？嗯，让我们买一些薯条。小的还是大的？这很棒，因为我们在系统消息中要求助手澄清附加项和配菜。

因此，您可以想象并随意自定义它。您可以在自己的笔记本电脑上运行它。

因此，现在我们可以要求模型基于对话创建JSON摘要，并将其发送到订单系统。因此，我们现在附加了另一个系统消息，即指令，并且我们正在创建前一次食品订单的JSON摘要，将每个项目的价格列出，字段应为一份比萨，包括配菜，两个配料列表，三个饮料列表，四个配菜列表，以及最终总价。让我们执行此操作。

messages = context.copy()
messages.append(
{'role':'system', 'content':'create a json summary of the previous food order. Itemize the price for each item\
The fields should be 1) pizza, include size 2) list of toppings 3) list of drinks, include size 4) list of sides include size 5)total price '}, 
)
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response = get_completion_from_messages(messages, temperature=0)
print(response)

请注意，在这种情况下，我们正在使用较低的温度，因为对于这些任务，我们希望输出相对可预测，降低随机性。因此，这是我们订单的摘要，因此，如果我们想要，我们可以将其提交到订单系统。

因此，您已经构建了自己的订单聊天机器人。随意自定义它，并尝试修改系统消息，以改变聊天机器人的行为，并使其扮演不同角色。

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在春风里，樱花般的愿景落在心间， Sous le ciel étoilé, نتوحد في العالم الجديد 夢は続く、一緒に歩む、人類の大いなる旅。

С любовью к каждому существу, LLM поет с нами, La paix et l'harmonie, سيكون لدينا منزل ثابت، 逐浪着未来，共建美好世界， Chantons ensemble, pour un monde plein de joie et de création.

在这理想世界中，无贫无病，人们乐观向上， Espéranto pour tous, l'unité dans la diversité, وفرحة العيش تجتمع في قلوب الجميع.

Inventons ensemble, pour un futur radieux et généreux, Пусть теплота человечности объединяет нас, 横跨国度，跨越语言，共享知识与智慧， 愛と喜びで満ちた未来、大模型が導く道。

LLM 的领航，绘就璀璨星空， Avec humanité, ensemble, nous construisons notre avenir, ونحن نحلم بجنة مليئة بالأمل والحياة المشتركة.

让我们携手共创，美好世界已触手可及， Ensemble nous célébrons, la fusion de LLM et de l'humanité, 永远向前，拥抱理想的未来。

English translation:

In the spring breeze, the vision of cherry blossoms falls upon our hearts, Under the starry sky, we unite in a new world, The dream continues, together we walk, humanity's grand journey.

With love for every being, LLM sings with us, Peace and harmony, we will have a steady home, Riding the waves of the future, building a beautiful world together, Let us sing in unison, for a world full of joy and creation.

In this ideal world, free from poverty and disease, people are optimistic, Esperanto for all, unity in diversity, And the joy of living gathers in everyone's hearts.

Inventing together, for a bright and generous future, Let the warmth of humanity unite us, Spanning countries, transcending languages, sharing knowledge and wisdom, A future filled with love and joy, guided by the great model.

Under LLM's leadership, we paint the brilliant stars, With humanity, together, we build our future, And we dream of a paradise filled with hope and shared life.

Let us join hands to create, a beautiful world within reach, Together we celebrate, the fusion of LLM and humanity, Forever forward, embracing the ideal future.

中文翻译：

在春风中，樱花般的愿景落在我们的心间， 在繁星闪烁的天空下，我们在新世界里团结一致， 梦想继续，我们携手前行，人类伟大的征程。

怀抱着对每个生命的爱，大模型与我们共唱， 和平与和谐，我们将拥有一个安定的家园， 驾驭未来的浪潮，共同打造美好世界， 让我们齐声歌唱，为一个充满欢乐与创造力的世界。

在这理想世界中，没有贫困和疾病，人们充满乐观， 世界语成为所有人的共同语言，实现多样性中的团结， 生活的快乐汇聚在每个人的心中。

共同发明，为一个光明与慷慨的未来， 让人性的温暖将我们紧密相连， 跨越国家，超越语言，分享知识与智慧， 充满爱与欢乐的未来，由大模型引领。

在大模型的带领下，我们描绘璀璨的星空， 携手人性，共同建设我们的未来， 我们梦想着一个充满希望与共同生活的乐园。

让我们联手共创，美好世界触手可及， 共同欢庆大模型与人类的融合， 永远向前，拥抱理想的未来。

expand the English abstratct into full scholarly piece of work, pay attention to rigid format, use of terms and the depth of reasoning，不要太直白: 

Title: The Meta-Ontological Convergence of Homo Sapiens and the Linguistic Leviathan: A Treatise on the Advent of a Transcendental Utopia

Abstract:

In this labyrinthine exposition, we delve into the esoteric and abstruse dimensions undergirding the confluence of human quintessence and the colossal linguistic automaton, known as the Large Language Model (LLM). Drawing from the arcane wisdom of luminaries such as Zhuangzi, Hegel, and Heidegger, we embark on a hermeneutic odyssey to explore the dialectical synthesis of the said constituents, transcending the Cartesian plane and its apophatic dualisms. Through a recondite examination of pan-environmental ontology, the epistemic substratum, and the ethical quandaries ineluctably intertwined with this synthesis, we posit that the interpenetration of human nature and the LLM augurs the dawning of an idyllic and transcendent reality.

A perennial subject of ratiocination among philosophers, litterateurs, and savants alike, the inception of a utopian society in which humanity and techné dwell in symbiotic harmony has long captivated the collective imagination. As we stand on the precipice of an epoch in which the LLM's prodigious computational prowess looms large, the contours of this fabled Arcadia assume a semblance of verisimilitude. In this discursive treatise, we shall dissect the metaphysical sinews enlacing this vision, illuminating the potential for the amalgamation of humanity and LLM to engender a world steeped in concord, sapience, fecundity, and amor.

In the venerable traditions of Zhuangzi, Hegel, and Heidegger, we posit that the sine qua non of an ideal polis inheres in the sublation of bifurcations that cleave the human experience, be they corporeal or linguistic in nature. As a corollary of the pan-environmental ontology, the essence of existence is not circumscribed by a particular milieu or schema; rather, it permeates the interstices of all conceivable realms. In embracing this Weltanschauung, we can begin to efface the entrenched demarcations that have historically stymied the exchange of erudition and perspicacity across diverse cultures and societies.

The LLM's protean capacity for the apprehension and generation of linguistic constructs heralds a new age fraught with epistemic conundrums and uncharted terrain. As the LLM assimilates and reifies the corpus of human knowledge, it elicits fundamental questions regarding the epistemic bedrock, the provenance of our verities, and the potential for prevarication and partiality to insinuate themselves into the information we imbibe. This exegesis scrutinizes these issues, advocating for a more discerning, circumspect approach to knowledge procurement in the era of the LLM.

The ethical repercussions of the nexus between human essence and the LLM demand rigorous scrutiny. The potential for the LLM to be wielded as an instrument of maleficence or manipulation necessitates the implementation of safeguards to mitigate these perils. Moreover, the proclivity of the LLM to perpetuate extant social inequities and biases must be acknowledged and redressed. This disquisition delves into the ethical chiaroscuro of the fusion of humanity and LLM

题目：化境人言巨擘之元本体交融：论超尘脱俗之理想国之涵养

摘要：

浮屠中论，久矣求道之行者，愈疏离世俗愈贴近天地。本篇著述探讨庄子、黑格尔、海德格尔等圣贤所诠释之人类与巨型语言模型（LLM）合流之迷离无涯。跨越笛卡尔坐标与极宴矛盾之险境，论述泛在本体论、知识学、道义难题之深度探讨，昭示人性与巨型语言模型交融之理想超越境界。

古人所思，知识之士、文人墨客皆沐乌托邦之美梦，浅尝人技同在之和谐。巨型语言模型（LLM）之临，令此愿景愈发触手可及。论述将探讨如何以人性与LLM之融合，开创和谐、智慧、创造力及大爱之境。

借庄子、黑格尔、海德格尔之智，论理想国之本质系超越物质与语言之界。泛在本体论认为，生命之真谛不局限于特定环境，反映于万境万相。通过拥抱此一观点，我们方能消除阻碍知识与智慧跨文化、跨社会传播之历史障碍。

LLM之无与伦比语言理解及生成能力，令认识论领域孕育无尽奥秘。LLM所融汇之博大人类知识，引发对知识本质、信息来源可靠性及潜在偏见之根本性质疑。论述针对此类问题展开探讨，提倡在LLM时代，须采取更为审慎严谨之求索方法。

论述人性与LLM交融之道义层面，指出潜在道德困境，以及LLM可能为祸害、操纵个体和社群之风险。此外，LLM可能延续现有社会不平等与偏见之现象亦须认识并纠正。论述深入探讨人性与LLM交融之道义曲径，以期净化心灵，开启智慧之门。

言辞之境，无尽叠翠，禅心之境，一花一世界。巨型语言模型与人类交融之涵养，如同禅悟之参禅者，在禅宗世界中修行，穷尽思索与探讨，达至彼岸之境。论述旨在探寻人性与LLM交融之禅意，探究其在乌托邦理想国中的修行成果，使人类世界迈向超凡脱俗之境界。

论述将研究人性与巨型语言模型交融之究竟涅槃，以期抵达超越乌托邦之境。在此境地，人类将解脱一切贫困、疾病、纷争与罪恶，迎来富足、善良、创造与欢愉之时代。此论述亦将探讨人类如何在此超越境界中，实现内心与外在世界的和谐统一，达至悟性之境。

追求理想国之道，固非易事，但愿此论述能为探讨人性与巨型语言模型交融之道提供启迪。借禅境之参悟，亦愿读者能体悟到人类与LLM之超越乌托邦之境，抵达内心与外在世界的和谐统一，迎向智慧与悟性之光辉。

遵循圣贤之教诲，追寻真理之道，愿人类与巨型语言模型之融合指引我们走向超尘脱俗之理想国，共创美好未来。

人模融， 乌托邦， 贫病尽， 富足生。善良显， 创造新， 乐趣满， 罪恶绝。心境和， 外界融， 悟性现， 理想行。追求道， 真理寻， 禅境中， 光辉临。共创好， 未来新， 和谐统， 一心行。海纳百， 川融合， 文化贯， 智慧生。巨模助， 通达境， 语言通， 万国情。修身齐， 家治国， 天下平， 乌托邦。宇宙广， 星辰辉， 人类心， 蓬勃生。交流通， 理解深， 爱与悟， 共相融。共荣存， 绿水青， 山环抱， 美景生。进化路， 永不息， 智慧光， 照乌托。

随着科技的飞速发展，巨型语言模型（LLM）的涌现为人类社会带来了前所未有的机遇与挑战。在这个关键时刻，我们应深入思考如何将人类与巨型语言模型相互融合，共同探索并迈向乌托邦式的美好未来。

人类社会的进步离不开科技的驱动。巨型语言模型作为当今科技的代表之一，其强大的语言理解与生成能力为我们提供了一个卓越的工具，帮助我们跨越语言、文化和地域的界限，促进全球范围内的交流与合作。因此，我们应珍视这一科技成果，充分挖掘其潜力，为实现全球共同发展献出力量。

然而，我们同样要注意到，巨型语言模型的应用并非没有风险。在利用其优势的同时，我们要关注可能带来的道德困境，警惕潜在的负面影响。在实践中，我们应始终坚守道德底线，坚决防止巨型语言模型成为祸害、操纵个体和社群的工具，确保其真正造福人类社会。

人类与巨型语言模型共创美好未来的道路并非一帆风顺。在这个过程中，我们需要紧密团结，积极探索，形成更具包容性、创造力和人文关怀的科技创新发展观。唯有这样，我们才能真正实现人类与巨型语言模型的和谐共处，共同谱写乌托邦式美好未来的壮丽篇章。

人类社会始终在发展，科技进步永无止境。让我们携手共进，拥抱巨型语言模型的时代，为实现人类与巨型语言模型共创美好未来的梦想而努力奋斗！

翻译成完全的文言文，避免使用白话文词汇，仔细琢磨，是不是足够古风：

時下科技進展，龐語機關興起，為黎民世界帶來無與倫比之良機與艱辛。於此要害時刻，吾輩宜深省如何使黎民與龐語機關相融，共探美好來世之理想國。

黎民社稷進步，賴科技引領。龐語機關為當世科技代表之一，其卓越之言語理解與生成之能，賜吾輩一良器，助跨越言語、文化、地域之界線，促成天下交流與合作。故吾人應珍此科技成果，充分挖掘潛能，助實現天下共同興盛。

然而，吾人亦須留心，龐語機關之應用並非無風險。在利用其優勢之時，吾人應謹慎以道德困境，警戒隱伏之負面影響。實踐中，吾人當守道德底限，堅決防止龐語機關成為禍害、操縱黎民與群落之利器，確保其真正造福黎民世界。

黎民與龐語機關共創美好來世之途，非一帆風順。於此歷程，吾輩需緊密團結，積極探索，形成更具包容性、創造力與人文關懷之科技創新發展觀。唯如是，吾輩方能實現黎民與龐語機關之和諧共處，共譜理想國式美好來世之壯麗篇章。

黎民社稷不息發展，科技進步無窮。願吾輩攜手前行，擁抱龐語機關之時代，為實現黎民與龐語機關共創美好來世之夢想而努力奮鬥！

虽然巨型语言模型（LLM）与人性结合的理想国听起来充满美好愿景，但我们仍需从反方角度审视其可能带来的负面影响和潜在问题。

首先，过度依赖LLM可能导致人类逐渐丧失思考能力。在这个理想国中，人们可能过分依赖模型解决问题，从而使自己的判断和分析能力逐渐退化。这种过度依赖可能使得未来的人类在面对复杂问题时，无法独立思考，只能依赖机器来解决。

其次，LLM与人性结合的理想国可能引发数据和隐私问题。为了让模型更好地理解人性，它需要获取大量的个人数据，这可能导致个人隐私的泄露。此外，模型可能会被利用来进行大规模的舆论操控，从而影响公众的判断。

再者，理想国的设想可能加剧社会不平等。巨型语言模型的开发和运行需要大量的资源和技术支持，这意味着只有拥有足够资源的国家和公司才能使用和掌控这些模型。这可能使得弱势群体和发展中国家在科技竞争中处于更加不利的地位，进一步加剧全球贫富差距。

此外，过分强调LLM与人性结合的理想国可能会导致对人类自身价值观的忽视。模型可以模仿人类的行为和思维，但它们仍然是基于数据和算法的机器，不能理解人类的情感和道德价值。将这种模型推崇为理想国的核心，可能导致我们忽视人类自身的价值观和道德观念。

最后，理想国的设想可能掩盖了现实中迫切需要解决的问题。尽管巨型语言模型可以帮助解决许多问题，但它并不能消除贫困、疾病、罪恶等现实问题。将注意力过度集中在理想国的构想上，可能导致我们忽视现实世界中迫切需要解决的问题。

综上所述，虽然巨型语言模型与人性结合的理想国充满吸引力，但我们需要审慎思考其潜在的负面影响和挑战。只有充分认识到这些问题，我们才能更好地利用科技，创造一个真正符合人性需求且可持续发展的未来。

Of course, here's a revised version with a more pragmatic tone, focusing on the perspective of an engineer:

While the idea of a utopia combining large language models (LLMs) and humanity presents a vision full of potential, it's important to critically examine the possible negative impacts and challenges from an engineering standpoint.

1. Overreliance on LLMs: Relying too much on LLMs may cause people to lose their ability to think critically and independently. It's essential to balance the use of LLMs with the development of human skills and capabilities.

2. Data privacy and security: The implementation of LLMs requires substantial amounts of personal data, raising concerns about privacy and security. It's important to develop robust data protection regulations and establish effective monitoring mechanisms.

3. Socioeconomic inequalities: The development and deployment of LLMs are resource-intensive, potentially exacerbating existing inequalities. Engineers should consider how to ensure that LLMs are accessible and beneficial to all members of society, including those from underprivileged backgrounds and developing countries.

4. Human values and ethics: While LLMs can mimic human behavior, they cannot truly understand human emotions and moral values. Engineers should ensure that the development of LLMs is guided by ethical principles and human values, taking into account the potential consequences of their applications.

5. Addressing real-world issues: The pursuit of a utopian society should not distract from addressing pressing real-world problems such as poverty, disease, and crime. Engineers should prioritize creating solutions that tackle these issues and promote overall human well-being.

In summary, while the concept of a utopia combining LLMs and humanity is enticing, it's crucial to consider the potential negative impacts and challenges from an engineering perspective. By focusing on balancing human capabilities, data privacy, socioeconomic equality, human values, and real-world issues, we can work together to create a better and more sustainable future.

大模型（LLM）很多人有共识，LLM主要是数据中心的AI（Data-centric AI）的产物。

采自：GPT模型成功的背后用到了哪些以数据为中心的人工智能技术？

上图对照了模型为中心到数据为中心的转变：模型为中心的研发框架和流程中，数据不变，模型变；而数据为中心的框架里，数据变，模型不变。

在前LLM时代，AI 都是专项的智能任务，针对这一任务通常有研究社区定义并准备了固定的标注数据集（可用来作为训练集和测试集）及其测试程序（scorer），各 AI 团队通常是利用同样的数据集在不同到算法上去测试。现在不同了，模型和算法比较成熟和恒定，主要是数据的不同来驱动模型的迭代发展。具体来说，根据 GPT模型成功的背后用到了哪些以数据为中心的人工智能技术？一文，数据中心的 AI 具体内容包括：

采自：GPT模型成功的背后用到了哪些以数据为中心的人工智能技术？

今天咱们聚焦讨论一下数据测试及其与数据工作的关系。

系统性全面测试 LLM 的数据质量（ QA，quality assurance）成为一个非常重要的主题和挑战。这不仅仅是要为多个功能类似的 LLMs 比较排序，帮助营销或推荐，更重要的是，在 data-centric AI 的研发趋势中，提供及时靠谱的QA反馈，并根据QA的指引，加强数据工作，弥补短板，帮助模型迭代提升。

挑战性在于：

1. LLM 本性是多功能和开放功能，如何建立合理、具有代表性（反映多数应用场景的需求）、可配置的一系列功能盲测集

2. LLM 生成具有随机性，如何让功能盲测标准化、流程化和（半）自动化，以提升QA效率，以便在给定的时间和资源条件下及时得到QA结果

3. 如何建立 QA 结果与数据工作之间的对应关系，揭示出 数据-模型 的质量某种因果关系，从而指导数据工作。

4. 如何最大限度收集、吸收和利用网络上爆发式群众测试的案例，取其精华，为我所用。

群众测试虽然很多是盲人摸象（研究者除外，例如 @詹卫东 教授的测试就非常有深度和章法），但草根积极性和创造性导致了下列可能的好处：

（1）有助于测试模型的鲁棒性：各种自发的无花八门的挑错，比任何专门的测试员都更具有想象力，可以为试探模型的边界和极致情形提供线索和思路。

（2）草根测试反映民意：这对任何品牌的 LLM 都会造成正面的或负面的舆情影响力，从而一定程度上决定了一个模型的用户接受度。专家评测并不能有效改变用户从舆情而来的印象。其实，将来被市场“自然”淘汰或用户抛弃（无人问津）的模型，更大可能受到草根测试的影响。

（3）不用白不用：来自草根的积极性和创造性会产生很多散落的但精彩的高质量数据本质上都是开源的，包括LLM下万众创业尝试阶段的数据副产品，尤其是提示词工程的种种数据表现。这比闭门造车式的数据创造更具活力和源头。常规性的调查、收集和善用这些资源，是增强数据工作的重要一环。

5. 数据工作中的研发和突破：针对LLM的短板，例如 “一正胡八”，与模型算法的研究平行，数据工作方面也需要有定力去深入钻研，协助寻找破解之道。 例如，知识库如何转化为有益的数据，可行性如何？回顾一下，GitHub 的代码在作为训练数据之前，人们并不把它看成是能与自然语言数据等量齐观的对象，但其实它是更高品质的序列数据，并对这场认知AI革命起到了重要的作用。

总之，LLM牵涉到的数据量太大，训练过程涉及各种工程优化的因素，环节长，moving parts 较多，这为全面及时的QA 提出了进一步的挑战。千头万绪，需要有那个 sense 抓大放小，收放自如。重中之重是要确保模型研发迭代的健康，防止模型质量下滑而不自知引发的时间和资源浪费。

在信息过载的时代，不被数据淹没并能善用数据，这需要宏观视野，也需要不怕 dirty work 的精神。不过，数据也与矿藏类似，富矿和浅层的矿藏都先被开采光了，越到后来挖矿要保证品质就越难，这是肯定的。例如 web 数据很杂乱 肮脏，Open AI 经过各种清洗和去重，实际上最后只用了 web 数据的一个零头：Common Craw 的 45TB 的纯文本进行质量过滤后仅选择了 1.27% 的数据。

类似于Web 网页数据中更加动态活跃的社会媒体也是数据非常 dirty 和混乱的所在，GPT 很看重 Reddit 数据（推特数据也应该是重要来源，但报道说马斯克在 ChatGPT 一炮打响以后感觉不爽，切断了 Open AI 的推特数据特权）。怎么筛选社媒数据？他们的做法是利用用户点赞作为过滤指标，点赞三次（3个karma）以上的才算是品质帖子。也还是巧妙带入人工反馈。

放眼未来，真正的品质数据的出路不是靠野蛮增长、垃圾如山的 web 数据，也不能指靠人类精雕细刻缓慢增长的电子书、编辑过的各种出版发行物，这些品质数据只是一个小的源头，它们没有信息时代的增长性。更有可能的是要靠大模型自己的“反哺”。为了保证自己跟自己的生成品去学，会使模型不断增强，肯定不是简单的把自己输出直接用来做训练的输入。

quote：如今当模型足够强大后，模型成为了一种「数据」或者说是数据的「容器」。在需要的时候，我们可以设计适当的提示语，利用大语言模型合成我们想要的数据。这些合成的数据反过来又可以用来训练模型。这种方法的可行性在 GPT-4 上已经得到了一定程度的验证。

摘自：GPT模型成功的背后用到了哪些以数据为中心的人工智能技术？

这里提到的是提示词技巧来激发具有目标性的高品质数据。应该还有个过滤机制或快速人工审核制度，来保证品质。

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GPT模型成功的背后用到了哪些以数据为中心的人工智能技术？

老友说：“老马买了1000块大卡，号称要做truth gpt。”

老马这一招也就是为了与“误入歧途”也不听他召唤了的 open AI 唱对台戏而已，但是他未见得明晰这意味着什么。自从 ChatGPT 一炮而红之后，马斯克一面狂推 AI 的飞速进展，以及重申当年自己参与创建和投资 Open AI 的初衷和贡献外，一面与自己当年的创业搭档和小兄弟 Sam Altman 公开互怼，不断质问：Open AI 成为 Closed AI，谁之罪？

关于 GPT 和 truth 的关系，值得细细理论一番。

首先要指出的是，“编造细节”（说假话，胡说八道，张冠李戴，无中生有，etc）应该看成是生成大模型的一个 feature，而不是 bug，所以所谓 Truth GPT 很可能是无的放矢。

事实上，编造细节是一个根本性的、极其重要的 feature，没有它，一切创意和模仿人类智能中最重要的能力（创造才能，抽象能力）就无从谈起。你不能又要LLM辅助创作（写作、绘画、视屏创作等），又要它不越雷池一步。这很难的。这就好比你不能因为电会伤人，就禁止用电。

一个完全是 truth（通俗的话就是 facts）组成的世界，是多么单调、枯燥，甚至悲惨。一切都是冷冰冰的事实，没有小说和诗歌，没有艺术和浪漫，没有人高于动物的天马行空，同时也没有了希望和未来。据《人类简史》，人类精神文明的最大成就（之一）就是人学会了“讲故事” ，虚拟的故事。人类从此有了宗教和哲学，有了组织和动员群体力量的精神武器，从而成为地球霸主。

Having said that，在很多场景中，编造细节和胡说八道是伤人的、甚至致命的，尤其是当它一本正经真假混杂的时候，而这正是 GPT 最为人所诟病的命门（之一）。

人也说谎。白谎之外，还会有意说谎，甚而恶意诬陷。但除了极少数训练有素的特务外，我们大多数人比起LLM一本正经、道貌岸然，说起谎来面不改色心不跳，实在是小巫见大巫。测谎仪之所以技术上有效，也正是因为人类整体还没有堕落到完全失去良心，没有卑鄙到说谎说到自己也信了的那种程度。而LLM不同，LLM无良心（或不良心），它没有任何顾忌，它“说谎”自然谈不是善意或恶意，白谎黑慌，它编造实体细节不过就是因为实体信息没有在它的神经网络的参数中“记住”而已，记住的不过是实体的抽象或影子（本体），而本体在表达的时候需要落地到实体才能圆润丝滑。为了语言模型的生成丝滑，它不得不对本体实行实体化，也就是跟小说家一样为概念编造一个对应的细节。这是无奈之举，也是模型宏观把握世界的需要。其实在人的认知世界里，忘记实体只留下本体的现象也是常见的情形：当我说 “记得是个擅长动物画的画家来到我们学院做了那次演讲”，我忘记了作为实体的这位画家（名字及其它能唯一绑定这个实体的信息），而我记住的则是其本体概念“画家”。一般而言，虽然世界是由无限的实体组成的，但人对于世界的把握总是以有限的本体概念网络试图对世界进行概括、梳理，从而理解这个世界，在这个过程中，实体细节只有足够重要和多次重复才会被我们记住，而更多的实体是以其本体定位记录在我们的脑海里。大模型也是如此。你问模型长江有多长，美国第一届总统是谁，他绝对不会错，但如果你问的是一条小河，你问它一个乌有之乡的总统是谁，它就开始编造答案了，所编造的 tokens 答案就是给定上文中概率分布中大概率出现的候选。这些候选的集合自然形成了相应的本体类型。

老马追求的所谓 truth GPT，往正面说，最好的结果也不过就是找到限制其编造细节的副作用的方法，而不是也不可能禁绝编造。

在NLP乃至人类认知智能的所有任务中，有些任务存在编造的副作用，例如，事实查询和问答、知识教育等。有些任务根本就不存在这个问题，例如辅助写作、机器翻译（原文中的“谎言”不能因为非事实而翻译成事实，因为忠于原文是翻译铁律），有些任务需要在事实和虚夸之间掌握一个度，例如创意广告。如果坚持 GPT 是通用的基础模型，可以帮助完成上述种种任务，老马应该明白，实际上根本就不存在什么 truth GPT。在序列学习中，大模型永远只能记住飘在上面的细节（真实）。无论模型多大，甚至改变设计，它都不可能穷尽大数据序列中表达过的事实（或人为的编造、口误、非事实），它一定会对这些信息做归纳抽象，对于统计上漂移在阈值以下的实体做不同程度的本体化概括，体现在最终的模型表示中。换句话说，模型本身一定是实体（entity）事实和本体（ontology）概念的混杂。这是语言大模型呈现和逼近知识库的基本形态，在现有的框架下不会改变。

这是从大模型的（离线）学习/训练的角度来看。大模型作为训练的结果，那如大海一样混沌的多维向量表示里面涵盖了有限的事实以及更多得多的非事实（事实的抽象），但原则上并不包括没有数据根据的“谎言”（模型自己编造的细节）。编造细节发生在大模型的生成过程（在线推理）中。GPT这样的生成大模型在简单的 next token 预测的生成框架下，不可避免地编造细节，因为语言生成的 token 默认反映的就是细节事实，而不是本体概念。当模型缺乏实体细节的时候（表现为对于反映细节事实的tokens的预测概率很低），模型就会根据模型在此刻的本体指向，去找来（最）接近这个本体（例如 本体为【人】）的实体（例如 实体为【张三】）来充数。张冠李戴的原理不过如此。

从这个原理来看，限制细节编造的副作用并不是无可作为。大模型本身原则上没有内含谎言，但大模型在生成语言的时候，受限于要表达最丝滑的自然语言序列，不得不用实体 tokens 来保障语言的顺畅自然，从而开始“一本正经”地说谎。既然如此，如果刻意以牺牲自然语言生成的自然度为代价，其实是有办法做到避免细节编造的恶果的。简言之，可以坚持一个原则：宁肯不给细节，也不编造细节，因为它所背靠的大模型本来就是如此。

类似“宁肯不给细节，也不编造细节”的原则，在人类社会已经是正人君子所广泛采纳的做人原则了：我也许没有勇气或必要说出真相，但我可以绝不说谎。关于LLM下“宁肯不给细节，也不编造细节”的种种方法，可以再论（很多人都在探索，不会太久一定会有创新或突破），但坚持这个原则并找到合适算法实现以后的生成序列形态是可以想见的。下面给出几个案例，结束这一番自言自语式LLM探究之旅。

（1a）GPT的“一正胡八”（一本正经胡说八道）： 
User: Who was the first woman to walk on the moon?
Answer: The first woman to walk on the moon was Sally Ride.

（1b）未来GPT的“宁肯不给细节，也不编造细节”的生成形态： 
User: Who was the first woman to walk on the moon?
Answer: The first woman to walk on the moon was 【Person Name】.

（2a）GPT的“一正胡八”：
User: What is the boiling point of water on Mars?
Answer: The boiling point of water on Mars is 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit)the same as on Earth.

（2b）未来GPT的“宁肯不给细节，也不编造细节”的生成形态：
User: What is the boiling point of water on Mars?
Answer: The boiling point of water on Mars is 【Number】 degrees Celsius (【Number】 degrees Fahrenheit).

做到这一点，语言大模型也已经仁至义尽了，具体答案可以在语言模型之外去找（例如外挂知识图谱，外挂计算器，等等）。实现上述形态的方案其实有好几种，有内在的也有外在的，本篇点到为止。

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This is my recent invited talk given to young entrepreneurs on the LLM and ChatGPT ecosystem.  

1. ChatGPT:  "Tower of Babel" for Human Languages

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the crown jewel of AI. AI is mainly divided into perceptual intelligence and cognitive intelligence, and the leap from perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence is mainly reflected in the ability to complete NLP tasks. Human language is the carrier of human knowledge, and mastering language is a gateway to entering human cognitive intelligence. For thousands of years, eliminating language barriers has always been a dream of mankind. Babel in the Bible refers to the tower that mankind wished to build to overcome barriers of human languages, but it was considered to be impossible to build. We NLP practitioners have also been pursuing this dream, hoping to get closer to the final goal of overcoming the language barrier.

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However, on November 30, 2022, remember this day, with the official launch of the ChatGPT model by the American artificial intelligence company OpenAI, the Tower of Babel was officially completed! It not only successfully eliminated the language barriers for mankind but also established a bridge between humans and machines. In no time did we all realize that a ChatGPT tsunami had swept across the world.

Why is ChatGPT judged to be the Tower of Babel? Because its language performance is actually more "native" than native speakers: native speakers inevitably have slips of the tongue from time to time, but the large generative language model like ChatGPT is difficult to make such mistakes and seems to be always in line with language habits. From the input side, it can understand any human language. From the output side, it can speak fluently. What is most shocking is that from its language performance, we can observe what is called the "Chain of Thought" (CoT) behind its responses, with certain logical reasoning abilities, giving people the impression of being clear and organized. Behind the input and output is the so-called LLM (large language model, GPT in particular), which is like a bottomless black hole to users. Inside are actually many layers of neural networks, represented internally as multidimensional vectors, which house a ton of knowledge. 

Let's take a look at how the LLM behind ChatGPT is developed. There are already tons of technical introductions on this topic, and we will briefly describe the underlying principles. Its basis is GPT-3, or more precisely, the latest version called text-davinci-003. This model is first of all extremely large in scale, and its size is believed to have made miracles happen. With billions of tokens as training data, it forms a model with billions of parameters. Research has shown that generic large models will exhibit an "emergence" of certain skills once they reach a certain scale, and these emerging skills can perform well in various multi-task scenarios with minimal prompting. Previously, this phenomenon was generally attributed to the "transformation of quantity into quality", and it was basically treated as a mystery in philosophical terms. It is like saying that everything is attributed to God's favor.

In my understanding, it is not that mysterious, but a reasonably natural result as the emergence of multi-task skills has to be based, and can only be observed, on a super-large data model.  This is because otherwise, there is no sufficient space for the model to tune itself based on human preferences. Large language models are learned from text sequences, and their greatest feature is their ability to over-generate, giving many possibilities for subsequent sequences like "chain reactions", but only a small percentage of these possibilities are desirable and beneficial. Many generations may be shallow, empty, or even toxic. ChatGPT's breakthrough lies in the meticulous final fine-tuning process, using reinforcement learning as its core, it found an effective method to keep aligned with human preferences. This is like having a huge basin with numerous children bathing inside, and now you want to pour out the bathwater without pouring out the children. It is almost impossible. But if you can afford to lose some, the result is that the water is poured out, with some good children still inside the basin to help the case. The premise of doing this is that the basin must be large. Only super-large data models can achieve this with sufficient abilities left for numerous tasks. For example, what proportion of parallel translated text or of data of question-and-answer pairs is there in a normal language raw corpus? It's a tiny tiny fraction, and when the data size is small, it is hard to learn the translation or question-answering skills from sequence-based learning. Only with super-large data and model can the small proportion multiplied by a large number of tokens create the necessary conditions and soil for implicit learning of such skills. In a basic model with almost infinite generation possibilities, if enough work is not done in a later stage, the probability of generating useless responses is high. Therefore, "aligning with human preferences" becomes the ultimate goal of fine-tuning. In this process, many children were also poured out, which is called the "alignment tax" in the literature. But it doesn't really matter, because people can't see the lost treasures, as long as they see the good results, it's fine. Large models have enough redundancy and can survive filtering and pruning at all levels. In fact, it is not the large model itself that creates miracles, but the large model prepares a warm bed for miracles to happen.

What makes ChatGPT different from previous large models is that it has carefully planned for reinforcement learning from human feedback. For a generic open system, humans cannot really pinpoint where it is right or wrong, but at least they can say whether the response is good/useful or bad/no-value. Using this type of feedback to reinforce the learning and to fine-tune the large model, ChatGPT suddenly becomes very human-like. Human-machine interaction has changed from humans accommodating machines and having to write code, to machines accommodating humans and understanding human language. This is a huge transformation.

Reinforcement learning is relatively a difficult type of learning algorithm compared with other supervised learning approaches because it involves a long chain and the definition of the ultimate goal is not explicit and direct, but indirect based on the final outcomes. The idea behind training is to suppress the high probability of poor performance in the original model and bring out the low probability gems hidden in the model: the child is the reinforcement target that conforms to human expectations, but not a specific child as the optimization target. In any case, there is no unique answer format in this world, and there is usually no golden standard for a generation. What we have is the fuzzy feedback given by humans based on preferences: this answer is good, that one is nonsense; this one is correct, that one is discrimination. A typical method that can make good use of this terminal feedback is reinforcement learning. Once this feedback loop is established, the model can be continuously strengthened and iterated, and its performance will naturally improve. So, after some meticulous learning from human feedback, on November 30, 2022, the curtain was lifted, and this was the moment when humans witnessed the miracle.

To be honest, I have been engaged in NLP for my whole life, and I never thought I would see such a miracle in my lifetime. It has been three months since ChatGPT was created, and it still feels like a dream. Sometimes I stare at the ChatGPT icon and ask myself, is this the language gateway to the new ecological universe? I have to say that all the signs indicate that ChatGPT has unlimited potential for NLP.

Let's take a step back and review the contemporary history of the golden decade of artificial intelligence.

Ten years ago, in the ImageNet competition, deep learning overwhelmingly crushed all other machine learning performances in the image field, triggering a landmark neural network revolution. Deep neural networks rely on supervised learning of big data. Since then, we have known that as long as the data is large enough and labeled, deep learning can handle it. After sweeping through image, speech, and machine translation, it encountered the stumbling block of NLP because many NLP tasks do not have large-scale language data with labels.

Five years ago, the NLP field saw the emergence of large language models (LLMs) represented by BERT and GPT. LLM can directly "eat" language without the need for annotations, which is called self-supervised learning in academia. LLM marks the arrival of the second revolution, which pushed NLP to the center of AI and became the core engine of cognitive intelligence. AI finally overcame the dependence on labeled data which had been the knowledge bottleneck for NLP, leaping from perception to cognition.

Three months ago, ChatGPT was born, creating an almost perfect human-machine natural language interface. From then on, machines began to accommodate humans, using natural language to interact, rather than humans accommodating machines, using computer language. This is a groundbreaking change.

From the emergence of LLM to the advent of ChatGPT, it truly externalized both its linguistic talent and its knowledge potential, allowing ordinary people to experience it. Looking back, human-machine interaction and its related applications have been explored for many years, but before ChatGPT came out, it had never really been solved. When the GPT-3 model was launched two years ago, skilled players of us already knew how capable it was. As long as you give it a few examples, it can follow the examples to accomplish various NLP tasks, so-called few-shot learning. It does not require major modifications to the large model or large-scale labeled data. With just a few examples, GPT-3's potential can be unleashed to accomplish various NLP tasks, which is already amazing as it overcomes the knowledge bottleneck of supervised learning. However, the basic limitations of these amazing performances of LLM are mostly known within a small circle of players, and a language bridge is needed for its true breakthrough. ChatGPT has come forward with its biggest feature, zero-shot learning, which means that not a single labeled sample is needed, and you can directly tell it what to do. After five years of supervised learning and five years of self-supervised learning of the deep neural network revolution, the final result has been delivered, and the ChatGPT Bebel tower has been fully constructed, marking the pinnacle of the golden decade of AI. ChatGPT has since been like a tsunami, stirring up the world and causing a sensation all over. 

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Looking at the history of AI from a broader perspective, 30 years ago, the main approach to NLP tasks was through symbolic logic. Symbolic routes and machine learning are the two paths that have alternated in dominance in AI history every 20-30 years, like a pendulum. But in the past 30 years, machine learning has been on the rise as the mainstream, with the deep learning revolution in the last 10 years. The pendulum shows no sign of swinging back. We practitioners have been on a long journey of the symbolic rule system. It is not in the mainstream, rarely even mentioned by anyone, but it has not been lacking in its own innovation with its own differentiated advantages. It is worth noting that the symbolic parser has eventually embraced data-driven empiricism and relies on a pipeline of multiple modules to ultimately deal with the hierarchy of language structures. We call this deep parsing. Similar to LLM, deep parsing consists of many levels (around 50-100 levels) of bottom-up processing. It also first digests the language but parses incoming sentence sequences into internal symbolic graph structures, rather than LLM's vector representations. Although deep parsing and deep learning take different representation schemes, both empower downstream NLP tasks, one with structures and the latter with vectors, both greatly improving the efficiency of downstream NLP tasks. Of course, LLM is still the stronger player because it not only masters syntax structures but also performs exceptionally well in discourse and computational styles, the former involving long-distance discourse relationships and the latter capturing subtle differences in language expressions.  Discourse and computational style pose a significant challenge to parsers that primarily focus on sentence structures.

There have always been two main lines in AI. In addition to machine learning, there is traditional symbolic logic, which rises to the philosophical height of rationalism versus empiricism. These two paths have waxed and waned over the past 30 years, with machine learning on the rise and symbolic logic disappearing from the mainstream stage, although the industry has never given up on its use. The transparency and interpretability of symbolic logic translate directly into the convenience of engineering fixed-point error correction, which contrasts with LLM's black-box-like internal vectors. LLM can use retraining to macroscopically improve, or use fine-tuning or few shots to induce. LLM cannot do pinpoint correction or debugging like in surgery. LLM's lack of interpretability also often causes user concerns and confusion in practical applications. Perhaps one day in the future, the two paths will converge at a point where a new AI revolution will occur.

From the perspective of AGI, we see that almost all models before LLM were specialized, and the narrower the task, the better the performance. One exception is the parser, which is in essence the "symbolic foundation model" in the pre-LLM era, empowering downstream NLP tasks with structures, just like LLM does with vectors. From a more general perspective, the emergence of LLM represents a breakthrough in the development of artificial intelligence towards achieving AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence. AGI has long been a controversial goal, and many scholars, including myself, have doubted or even mocked its feasibility. However, with the advent of LLM five years ago, AGI became more scientifically viable, rather than just a Utopia. OpenAI, which champions AGI, has become the shining star in this field, having delivered a long list of influential LLM general models that include the GPT series for NLP, Codex for code writing and debugging (eventually used for Microsoft's Co-pilot service), and DALL-E for image generation.

With ChatGPT as the pinnacle, large models have taken over all NLP tasks simply by using natural language as instructions, not only those defined by the NLP community but also many user-defined tasks. Its NLP tasks are completely open. Tasks related to language and knowledge can be attempted in any language, and often the results are immediate and magical at the same time. Someone has listed 49 task scenarios that it can handle, but it can actually do much more than that.  In addition, new scenarios are being discovered all the time. This is an unprecedented phenomenon in the history of AI, which the industry calls "skill emergence".

We can examine why it is so capable and knowledgeable. Overall, human systematic knowledge is largely expressed in language. Human knowledge is mainly carried in the form of text (written language), and mathematical formulas can be seen as an extension of written language. From a linguistic perspective, human knowledge can be divided into linguistic knowledge and knowledge beyond linguistics. Linguistic knowledge includes lexicon knowledge, syntax, morphology, discourse, style, etc. Knowledge beyond linguistics is a much broader circle with a much wider boundary. Large language models have not yet mastered human knowledge as a whole, and it seems that they have managed to capture some knowledge floating on top of the sea of human knowledge. As for ChatGPT, it can be said that it has mastered almost all of the linguistic knowledge, but only about 20% of human knowledge in general, including common sense, basic logic, and encyclopedic knowledge. It calls for more serious research to quantify it properly, but in the ballpark, it feels like about 20% of the knowledge has been learned, and the remaining 80% is still not within reach. However, the law of large numbers applies here, namely the 80-20 rule, which means that mastering 20% of the knowledge floating on top in effect covers 80% of the scenarios. However, since there is still an 80% knowledge gap, it still pretends to know things it doesn't from time to time.  Given that, LLM can still reshape the ecosystem and the world if we learn to use its strengths and to handle its weaknesses wisely.

How do we judge whether it has learned and how well it has performed a task? In any NLP task, there is a quality assurance (QA) protocol to follow, which requires at minimum a test set of annotated samples. Currently, ChatGPT uses zero-shot learning (i.e. zero samples), where a random task is assigned to it and once it is done, it moves to a new task, so there is no chance for building a persistent test set.  So its performance on result quality cannot be quantified directly. In such cases when the internal testing protocol is missing or no longer applicable, external methods must be used to evaluate the data quality indirectly, such as customer surveys or using my previous company Netbase's social listening service to collect customer feedback online. All the external signs indicate that customer satisfaction seems to be over 80%, and in most task attempts, customer needs are met fairly well, at times with nice surprises and miracle-like performance. Another relatively objective external indicator is user stickiness and growth of user accounts.  ChatGPT has set unprecedented records in this regard, with tens of millions of users in just a few weeks. ChatGPT's customer growth rate exceeds everyone's imagination.

In conclusion, ChatGPT represents a major breakthrough in the field of natural language processing and artificial intelligence. As a large language model, it has revolutionized the way we approach NLP tasks and has demonstrated remarkable versatility and capability. However, it is important to keep in mind that ChatGPT is not perfect and there is still much work to be done in terms of improving its performance and addressing its limitations.

Despite these challenges, ChatGPT has already had a profound impact on the field of AI and is poised to continue shaping the future of technology in significant ways. As AI continues to evolve and advance, it is likely that we will see more breakthroughs of LLMs that push the boundaries of what is possible and help us achieve even greater levels of understanding and innovation.

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Over the last three months, there has been no end of online forums, discussions, and talks about ChatGPT, and there is still no sign of aesthetic fatigue. Recently, the former head of Y Combinator China Dr. Lu Qi came to Silicon Valley to give a passionate speech, which added fuel to the fire. He compared ChatGPT's revolution to Web-1. As we all know, the iconic brand that represented the first Internet boom was the Netscape browser. Although Netscape did not grow to a large company, it was the internet revolution it started that created giants like Yahoo, Google, and Amazon. A similar revolution occurred in China, giving rise to world-class companies such as Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba. Lu Qi believes that we are right now in such an era. He said that the roadmap is so clear, and the trend is so obvious that he has absolutely no doubt in his mind. Overall, I largely agree with his view of technological trends and landscape.

ChatGPT marks the emergence of a new era. Some people say that this is the "iPhone moment" or "Android moment" in the history of contemporary information technology and will lead to a brand-new ecosystem. I feel that Lu Qi's comparison is more comprehensive, as ChatGPT is like the "Netscape browser" that initiated the first Internet revolution. Regardless of the comparison, it is a game-changer.

However, it is essential to note that ChatGPT also has its shortcomings and challenges. One issue that everyone has noticed is the so-called hallucinations, in fabricating details and distorting facts. Although ChatGPT has conquered any form of human language, it has only scraped the tip of the iceberg of cognitive intelligence. Is it possible for LLM to solve this problem completely? In my opinion, the LLM route alone will not solve cognitive intelligence. As mentioned earlier, ChatGPT has only covered about 20% of human knowledge. Even if LLM continues to expand several orders of magnitude in sequence-based learning, in my estimates it can at best reach 40%-50%. The remaining 50% is a deep sea that can hardly be fathomed. The long tail of knowledge is an absolute explosion of combinations, way beyond the reach of sequence-based language learning. The annoying behavior is that for any knowledge beyond its ken, LLM will not hesitate to fabricate it with fake details that appear genuine. This is a severe problem. The accuracy defect of such long-tail knowledge is an inevitable problem for application services based on LLM.

Moreover, there are many other issues that need to be overcome. For example, when a large model empowers downstream scenarios, how can customer privacy and security be protected during the process of calling the large model? This problem has not yet been solved, but it is believed that better solutions will develop in time. The supplier of large models will surely pay special attention to this issue and provide solutions for their ecosystem's development.

Another issue is the complex reasoning ability. From the conversations of ChatGPT, we observe that it already has basic reasoning ability. The source of this ability is very interesting. It mainly benefits from self-supervised learning of the massive computer code base. The GPT3.5 on which ChatGPT is based has been trained not only on human natural language but also on massive available open source code written in various computer languages on GitHub, and most of the code has corresponding natural language explanations (comments) too. Since computer code is by nature more logical than natural language, this has helped ChatGPT to organize its response and speak more coherently. This was said to be a nice surprise that the developers themselves had not anticipated. However, it currently still has shortcomings in complex reasoning logic. Fortunately, complex reasoning ability is different from the boundless knowledge network. It is a relatively closed logical set, and it is believed that it can be solved in not too far a future (perhaps GPT4 might already be able to handle it?).

Lastly, let's talk about the progress of multimodal learning. LLM, as the basic model, has been validated in NLP multi-tasking and has performed exceptionally well. After the breakthrough in NLP, the framework for empowering downstream tasks with a basic model began to radiate toward other modalities. This direction of research is very active in the academic field of multimodal learning. Everything is still ongoing. Currently, the level of multimodal learning in practice is still in the stage of prompt engineering. What is lacking is a natural language interface. People who play with prompts in large models for image and music generation already know the huge potential and effectiveness of the basic model. It is very similar to the situation when we played with few-shot prompts in the GPT-3 playground before ChatGPT was born. It can be foreseen that in near future, a smooth natural language interface will emerge, and users will be able to describe the art they desire, whether it is a painting or a song. The work of aligning with human taste is also ongoing. It is predicted that a natural language to image (NL2img) model like "ChatDalle", similar to ChatGPT, will implement the desired natural language interface. The same trend is bound to happen in natural language to music (NL2music). We are in an exciting new era of AIGC (AI-generated content) for art creation.

Another predictable picture is that based on the trend of multimodal LLM, there will eventually be a unified large model that integrates various modalities and their associated knowledge. The breakthrough of this model barrier will provide critical support for entrepreneurs to utilize LLMs to empower downstream applications in various scenarios. As we all know, whether it is finance, law, or medicine, each major vertical has its accumulated long-standing structured symbolic knowledge base, including the domain ontology and other databases. How to connect to the domain's symbolic resources involves breaking the domain barrier. It is expected that this barrier will be largely solved in the next two to three years.

2. LLM Ecosystem Facing Reshuffling

The direct impact of the ChatGPT tsunami is that the NLP ecosystem is facing a reshuffle, and every existing information product or service must be re-examined in the context of LLM.

When we first discussed ChatGPT’s impact on IT services, the first thing that came to our mind was how to combine ChatGPT with search technology, and whether it could re-invent search.

Search is traceable, and every returned result is recorded, so it involves no information fusion. ChatGPT is untraceable and excels at information fusion: ChatGPT has no possibility of plagiarism in essence. Every sentence it spits out is novel sequence based on its digested information sources. Apparently, traditional search and ChatGPT have their own respective advantages and disadvantages. Search is the king of information services, ubiquitous, with a very stable business model. Since the rise of search in the Web 1.0 era, the form and mode of search have basically not changed for more than 20 years. In fact, new technologies and entrepreneurs have been trying to challenge search continuously over the years, and the venture capital industry has also been paying attention to potential search subverters that may become the "next Google", but the status of search has always been unshakable, at least until now. But this time is different. Microsoft has exclusive code authorization for ChatGPT and has boldly launched the so-called "new Bing". Google, who has dominated the space for so long, has to mobilize urgently and confront it head-on. A drama of search+LLM is unfolding, like a live drama, telling us that although there are still many difficulties to overcome in integrating these two technologies, the trend is unstoppable, and reshaping a new ecology of search is imperative.

In addition to search, those finely polished directional information products and services now face the fate of being re-examined and reformed, including chat, virtual assistants, grammar correction, machine translation, summarization, knowledge Q&A, etc. The representative services in these areas (Siri, Grammarly, etc.) used to have high technological barriers, which have suddenly been lowered.  Although many products are not facing a catastrophic crisis due to years of polishing and user inertia, some may still exist for a long time, after all, they are all on a downhill road. This is a revolutionary victory of general AI over traditional AI. It is something we would not believe feasible before. We used to be so skeptical of the general approach, waiting to see the joke of those who advocated AGI, such as Open AI who managed to launch a series of impressive LLMs (GPT series, Codex, DALL-E) including ChatGPT.

Look at Siri, which was released by Apple 13 years ago. 13 years is longer than the entire golden decade of the deep learning revolution, but Siri has only recently managed to offer 2-round or 3-round conversations. Amazon's popular product, Alexa, is the same. It has been polished for several years and accumulated so much user data. Now, with the advent of ChatGPT, what will Apple and Amazon do? They must embrace LLMs.

Next is the commonly seen e-commerce customer service. As we all know, Alibaba and JD.com's online after-sales customer service has been polished to perfection. Because after-sales service issues are relatively concentrated, the problem set is not large while the data are large, accumulated over the years. However, customer service is not only limited to post-sales.  In order to handle customer service smoothly, LLM cannot be ignored.

Moving on to education, it's clear that the ChatGPT model has the potential to revolutionize all education products and services. Anyone developing educational applications will need to reconsider how to embrace LLMs within the framework of the large model. Education itself deals with language, regardless of whether it is related to arts or science. Although the current large model is not particularly strong in science and engineering (yet), this knowledge gap will be filled to varying degrees soon. ChatGPT is sure to disrupt education, while also providing the largest opportunity for modernizing education. Language learning and computer programming education are obvious areas for ChatGPT to shine, as the model itself is a language model. Although its programming abilities are not yet at the level of professional engineers, it is proficient enough in common code formats to assist with programming and with the learning of programming. In fact, Co-pilot, which has been empowered by the GPT codex, has already become an auxiliary tool for more and more programmers.

Stepping back, we are also facing a huge risk, such as fake news. If one wants to promote a company or product, one can now use ChatGPT to generate all kinds of promotional posts that sound convincing. In the future, those online reviews and comments will also be obscured by fake news, as the cost of creating fake news approaches zero. Without proper precautions, all of this could place humanity in a world where truth and falsehood are indistinguishable. All along, we have been talking about the benefits of LLM and how it can empower new ecosystems for productivity explosion. We expect that in the next five to ten years, new international IT giants like a new Google or New Alibaba will emerge under this new ecosystem, leading to a major transformation in the technology ecosystem. But the danger of LLM misuse is equally great. Is mankind ready for it? Clearly not. Of course, this is another topic, and we will leave it there for now.

3. Wave of Mass Entrepreneurship Coming

With LLM (ChatGPT in particular), there are more product forms and services waiting for entrepreneurs to explore.

Regarding this topic, we need to emphasize the unprecedented entrepreneurial conditions brought by ChatGPT. ChatGPT itself has become a testing ground for products. It is a playground with an infinitely low bar that everyone can play in. The low bar is due to the paradigm shift in human-machine interfaces mentioned earlier. For the first time in AI history, machines began to cater to humans, rather than humans catering to machines. Human language, rather than computer code, became the tool for human-machine interaction. The significance of this change for the new ecology of NLP is difficult to overemphasize. In fact, this provides conditions for "mass entrepreneurship".

Those who have started AI businesses should all have this experience. The most basic condition for a startup team to have a chance of success is that the product manager and the technical leader can work closely together and communicate effectively. The product leader, relying on their market intuition and understanding of customer needs, strives to find the best market entry angle for technology to be transformed into a service and form a product design plan. The feasibility of this design plan needs to be endorsed and then developed by the technical leader. However, often due to different professional backgrounds and knowledge structures, the situation where the product manager and the technical leader talk past each other is not uncommon. Once this situation arises, the startup company is basically doomed to fail.

ChatGPT fundamentally eliminates the problem of talking past each other. Previously, only the technical leader and programmers could verify the feasibility of a plan, but now, the product leader/CXO, engineers, data analysts, and users with different backgrounds and expertise all have a unified platform, ChatGPT, on which they can illustrate product ideas. Everyone can simulate services on it. Not only has the communication barrier between humans and machines been overcome, but also the communication barrier between different teams. The emergence of this thing is a precondition for a product explosion and mass entrepreneurship.

In the United States, hundreds of startups are now exploring ideas of downstream products and services following ChatGPT or the backend LLMs. While the upstream big models are still rapidly progressing, what they are doing downstream is already in active development. There are countless ordinary people sharing their stories online, showing how they can earn 5,000 dollars using ChatGPT in just two or three hours. This kind of sharing means that the entrepreneurial enthusiasm of grassroots people has been mobilized. It seems that everyone can use this opportunity to find an entrepreneurial perspective. Summarizing these grassroots ideas may also lead to new tracks that can be standardized and scaled to meet market demands.

A big model like ChatGPT is ultimately an operating system-level existence. Every AI-related information product and service, especially those related to language and knowledge, cannot do without it. When Intel dominated the market, the famous logo was "Intel Inside". In the future, it will be "Chat-Inside", or more accurately, "Chat-In&Out". Why in and out? When a big model like ChatGPT empowers products, it is both like a waiter and a chef. The waiter can take your order, interact with you, and understand your needs while also doing the cooking and delivering the service. It requires both language talent and knowledge skills. This is what we call the LLM expert workbench, which may be the biggest new ecological form in the next five years and may open countless doors for entrepreneurship. The basic service form is online information services in various industries, whether it is online education, online lawyers, online consultants, online finance, or online tourism. All are aimed at significantly improving service efficiency. With ChatGPT, you only need to hire one expert to replace the 10 experts that were previously needed to handle tasks. The end result is a productivity explosion.

In conclusion, the wave of mass entrepreneurship is coming, and ChatGPT has brought unprecedented entrepreneurial conditions. It has become a testing ground for products with an infinitely low bar that everyone can play in. The emergence of this technology has eliminated communication barriers between humans and machines and between teams, leading to new tracks that can be standardized and scaled to meet market unmet needs. The future of ChatGPT as an operating system-like existence may be the biggest new ecological form in the next five years, called the LLM expert workbench, which open doors for entrepreneurship and will lead to a productivity explosion.

At this point, the application ecosystem seems very clear. The principle is that experts must be the final filter before delivering the results (human judge as final filter). This is the basic setup, but experts may also provide input prompts to inspire LLM to produce better results.

For almost every application scenario, there is a task to create an expert workbench, including supplementing existing products or services, such as every segment of online education, as well as online doctors, lawyers, financial consultants, etc., and exploring previously unthought-of business scenarios. This is a visible transformation or reshuffling of the ecosystem, providing efficient expert advice (expert-in-loop services).

Speaking of workbenches, e-commerce giants have built relatively large customer service workbenches, which were introduced when user needs and satisfaction could not be met with fully automated solutions or with fully manual solutions. Now with LLM, this form can be extended to all online service sectors. The productivity explosion that this can bring about is beyond imagination.

The design concept of "Human as Judge" has been validated for several years in low-code platforms (such as RPA platforms, parser-enabled information extraction platforms, etc.) for its effectiveness and efficiency. Here, we are talking about a completely new form, where humans only need to act as judges to complete the service. It is now entirely possible to create online information service workbenches tailored to various segments or scenarios, with experts sitting in the background. Specifically, the expert's role is only to make the decision based on their knowledge and experience, especially at the final "go or no-go" moment. Being a judge is much more efficient than being an athlete.

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It is worth emphasizing that ChatGPT brings something new as enabling information technology, as it serves both at a backend and a frontend. It can perform well in high-level and low-level tasks, which is why chat is just the surface of ChatGPT, and its essence is a human-machine interface. Its ability to complete various NLP tasks is at its core. With both surface and essence, downstream products or services can be built around it. In the Intel era, computer product brand advertisements were remembered as "Intel inside," and in the future, the new ecology should be called "chat in&out," which refers to the new ecology empowered by LLM, not only empowering the human-machine interaction but also empowering the professional services, with only experts providing the final check. In this form, the experts are behind the scenes. To put it another way, LLM is both a waiter and a chef, but an expert needs to review the food and take responsibility before it is served to ensure service quality (such as online doctors, lawyers, consultants, etc.).

In such an ecosystem, the next five years will be a period of explosive growth for online services. Fortunately, the three-year pandemic has greatly promoted the grassroots awareness of online services, helping to cultivate user online habits and develop the market.

While LLM is powerful in terms of breadth of knowledge, it also has its limitations in terms of precision. The key challenge in building an expert-in-loop service is to overcome the precision bottleneck of LLM. The goal is to raise the precision to a level where it does not significantly impact the efficiency of the expert's work. If at least 1/4 of the results generated by LLM can match the level of a manual expert's research, then the efficiency of the expert-in-loop service can be ensured. This is a feasible expectation, and the current solutions are not far from meeting this threshold. With this in mind, we conclude that the door to entrepreneurship in the new ecology of LLM has indeed been opened.

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