Sleeping beauties: the mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture (Ep 104)
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The Importance of Metaphors in AI
Marty: I think there's nothing like a concept, a concept of a concept built into these large language models. So how do we know that they aren't finding relationships among completely disparate kinds of things? Is there anything about the architecture of these look up tables that would prevent them from using something like a metaphor to come up with an answer? It wouldn't. But, you know, this is actually a research question. There's a lot of people who want interpretable AI. That's what it's called. You know, basically you have a neural network that you understand what it's doing. And for very good reasons, especially if you apply AI in the legal domain or the
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