Traditional NLP Alignment

LLM Alignment with Human Expectations

AI Alignment

A research team is developing a machine translation system and focuses on 'word alignment,' which involves mapping each word in a source sentence to its corresponding word in the translated sentence. Separately, a company developing a conversational AI is focused on 'model alignment,' which involves training the AI to be helpful, harmless, and honest. What is the core distinction between the concept of 'alignment' in these two contexts?

The Evolving Meaning of 'Alignment' in Language Models

Distinguishing Types of NLP Alignment