LLMs are a left hemisphere with no right hemisphere to check them
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What we've essentially built is a left hemisphere. That stands on its own without the guardianship of the right hemisphere of the right hemisphere.
Episode 268: Dead Hanging Safari (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:11:01 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Drawing on McGilchrist, Dave argues that LLMs are a standalone left hemisphere: they build a picture of the world from parts and have no awareness of the whole. Let one run the show and the outcomes are bad. A human has to play the right hemisphere, the overseer who sees the whole system and pushes back, which is why Dave watches agents' reasoning chains as they work.
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Episode 268: Dead Hanging Safari (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:14:04 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
Being the overseer and trying to spot things because I'm engaging the right hemisphere, which sees the world as a whole, not built up from parts.
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