It is commonly thought that the people who develop large language models (LLM) are artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. However, at a tech company in Beijing's Zhongguancun, there is also a team of young psychological trainers for AI, all of whom graduated in psychology.
What are their roles in developing LLMs?
\"In the early stages, when asked what I should pay attention to when swimming, the AI will immediately give a very complete answer. It's a good answer, but it is not from the perspective of a child,\" Wang Jingwen, AI psychological trainer at Hanwang Technology Co., Ltd., told China Media Group when demonstrating a detection interface for English communication for primary and secondary school students.
\"It behaves just like an expert, but we hope to make it into an image that is as friendly and lively as a child. So I can give the instruction that the answer needs to be understood by primary and secondary school students. This actually embodies the logic of developmental psychology, helping AI better understand what we want it to become,\" added Wang, who has a PhD from the Institute of Psychology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The LLMs are just like children, and they need encouragement, Wang said. The AI trainers would repeat training instructions many times to allow them to gradually enhance their ability to communicate with people. Just like children, if there are more positive incentives, the large language models will perform better, she said.
The instructions given by AI psychological trainers are translated into code language by algorithm engineers. The LLM can quickly improve their ability to understand and generate human-like communication.
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How young Chinese psychological trainers boost AI's development
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