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#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

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The Limits of Large Language Models

Do you think the current transformer based large language models will take us to AGI? My main issue is I think that they are quite ugly and brutalist. So can you achieve, what are the limitations of this? I mean, can you reason? Let's use words that are loaded. Yes, that's a very interesting question. These models are clearly making some inference. But if you give them a reasoning task, it's often difficult for the experimenters to figure out whether the reasoning is the result of the emulation of the reasoning strategy that they saw in human written text. And when Francois Cholier says that these models are only interpolating between what they saw and what other people

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