Special Episode: Language in Brains and Machines
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Importance of Language Models
There are many very amusing YouTube videos of GPT instances talking to one another basically carrying on conversations and going in very strange and unexpected directions. What strikes me is that they can't start the conversation there's got to be a human to type in a seed phrase or something to get things going because you know they just don't have an agenda yes really other than predict what comes next. We should be reticent about interpreting the results of these models as if they have any communicative purpose even though they may seem to depending on the particular example.
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