Evaluating the Purpose of Instruction-Based Training
A machine learning engineer argues, 'The process of further training a pre-trained language model on a dataset of specific instructions and their desired outputs is solely about improving the model's task-specific performance. It's not fundamentally about guiding its behavior to match human intentions.'
Critique this engineer's argument. Explain why this training process is, in fact, a key method for guiding a model's behavior to conform to human intentions.
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Evaluating the Purpose of Instruction-Based Training
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