Language models imply world models

(blog.plover.com)

1 points | by gbacon 13 hours ago ago

1 comments

  • chrisjj 12 hours ago 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.