Talking About Large Language Models
A preprint by Murray Shanahan, arXiv preprint 2212.03551, dated 7 December 2022. arXiv v1, December 2022.
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- Language models lack agency or understandingShanahan's paper of December 2022 states that a large language model is a generative mathematical model of the statistical distribution of tokens in human-generated text, which simply generates statistically likely sequences of words, and that a simple LLM-based question-answering system does not properly speaking have beliefs.2022-12-07 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Language models lack agency or understanding: propositions page →
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