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Language models imply world models

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2 points by gbacon a month ago · 1 comment

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chrisjj a month ago

> as a “Large Language Model”, Claude necessarily includes a model of the world in general

> as a theory it has been widely entertained since the very earliest days of digital computers. Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, the first person to seriously investigate machine translation, came to this conclusion in the 1950s.

> Bar-Hillel says, and I agree, that an accurate model of language requires an accurate model of the world.

This is a schoolboy error. Requires != includes.

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