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Large Language Negligence

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Why Chat GPT Lacks a Symbolic Reasoning Ability

On what basis can we say that chat GPT lacks such a representation? That has always been to me somewhat a difficult question to wrap my mind around. On the other hand, it does seem like an open question that there are other ways of getting to symbolic type reasoning. So why isn't symbolic reasoning? I give it two reasons. First of all, we didn't design it to the symbolic reasoning. There is nowhere inside that big, you know, box of hundreds of billions of parameters, anything that's designed to capture symbolic reason. And the second reason is empirical. By now I suspect hundreds of papers that catch any of the GPT, charge GPT, GPT for et

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