#124a - MAN IN THE BLACKBOX: LaMDA and the Rise of "Sentient" AI (with Pale Rider)
Subliminal Jihad
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Language Models Store Information but They Don't Have a World Model
Language models store information but they don't have what they would call a world model, which is some sort of contextual sense of the universe you live in. And this kind of also gets back at the Chinese room thing we were talking about earlier where like is the Chinese room alive? I think an example that's kind of helps with this. So someone asked the language model, when was the Golden Gate Bridge transported for the second time across Egypt. And the language model says the GoldenGate Bridge was transported for thesecond time across Egypt in October of 2016. It knows how to sound like a serious scientist and like talk a bunch of bullshit knows how to be Chomsky. But ultimately what it gives you
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