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Raphaël Millière on large language models

The Sentience Institute Podcast

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The Importance of Understanding

I like to put this notion of understanding to the side because it's confronted by associations people. Some people think of understanding as requiring consciousness, like a consistent language and you need to have an experience, a feeling of understanding. So I like to talk about semantic competence instead of understanding to try to rule out these associations. You can also make another distinction between what you might call referential semantic competence which is the capacity to connect words to what they refer to out there in the world.

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