GPT-2 and the Nature of Intelligence
An essay by Gary Marcus, The Gradient, dated 25 January 2020. article:published_time of the page, 25 January 2020.
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- Language models lack agency or understandingMarcus's essay of January 2020 states that GPT-2, despite its fluency, has no idea what it is talking about, that prediction does not equal understanding, and that anything in it that looks like genuine understanding is an illusion.2020-01-25 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Language models lack agency or understanding: propositions page →
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