The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
- For the past year or so I’ve been spending most of my time researching the use of language and diffusion models in software businesses.
- One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed me—has been that many people are convinced that language models, or specifically chat-based language models, are intelligent.
- But there isn’t any mechanism inherent in large language models (LLMs) that would seem to enable this and, if real, it would be completely unexplained.
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- For the past year or so I’ve been spending most of my time researching the use of language and diffusion models in software businesses.
- One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed me—has been that many people are convinced that language models, or specifically chat-based language models, are intelligent.
- But there isn’t any mechanism inherent in large language models (LLMs) that would seem to enable this and, if real, it would be completely unexplained.
Sources: Softwarecrisis