[HN Gopher] The many ways that digital minds can know - A better...
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       The many ways that digital minds can know - A better way to think
       about LLMs
        
       Author : moultano
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2023-07-05 17:17 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | troft wrote:
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       | turnsout wrote:
       | Nice article, and I like the choice of the word "integration"
       | rather than "generalization" to describe the ability of a model
       | to take an internal representation and apply it in a new
       | scenario.
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       | I continue to think that Relational Frame Theory [0] both
       | explains _why_ these models work so well, and also _how_ they 're
       | able to integrate knowledge through nothing but language. I
       | believe that a researcher could show that LLMs emergently encode
       | "frames" that describe relationships between concepts; that
       | frames can be combined to form more complex expressions; and that
       | frames can be reused in different contexts to make "novel"
       | connections.
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       | [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_frame_theory
        
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