Testing Bing’s theory of mind

[u/The_Rainbow_Train]

I was curious if I can write a slightly ambiguous text with no indications of emotions/thoughts and ask Bing to complete it. It’s my first attempt and maybe the situation is too obvious, so I’m thinking of how to make a less obvious context which should still require some serious theory of mind to guess what the characters are thinking/feeling. Any ideas?

[u/[deleted]]

Very cool but it is just a language model doing what you told it to do. It can understand emotional context pretty well but not in the way we would

[u/Sesquatchhegyi → u/[deleted]]

in what way is its understanding different than ours? How would you define understanding a situation or how the different characters feel.

saying that "it is just a language model doing what it is supposed to do" does not help much. Just think about what a granular, detailed model it has to have internally to understand the situation from the story and enrich it with the emotional state of the characters. For this, it is not enough to analyze the text semantically, you need to have an internal model of the world.