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230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Can a Large Language Model Have an Imagination?

The structure of the encodings for work terms in these models is somehow isomorphic to the structure of colors out there in the world, if you think the RGB color space is what I should represent that. Can a large language model have an imagination? Yeah, that's a really interesting question. You can absolutely think that you can latch onto something there about the structure of the world just by learning from statistics of language. The resolution of language as it were is not quite the same as the resolution of images.

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