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E26: [Bonus Episode] Connor Leahy on AGI, GPT-4, and Cognitive Emulation w/ FLI Podcast

"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

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The Importance of Language Models

Connor: I think the word large language models is kind of a misnomer, or it's just like not a good term. These are general systems that can take in input from various modalities encoded to some kind of semantic space and do cognitive operations on it. This is the same way the human brain books stimuli into a common representation of neural spike trains. And similarly, what we're seeing with these GPT plugins and whatever is we're hooking up muscles to the neural spike trains of the of these language models. We are giving them actuators, virtual actuators upon reality. So this is interesting both for the way in which they can interact with the environment, but also how

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