Languages as designed latent spaces
It’s also work that an LLM cannot do: they are symbol manipulators, not creators of symbols. This is something that really irks me when I see the word "novel" used to describe an output of a LLM. No, those things are not capable of actually doing anything novel, because novelty implies new symbols, not a less common combination of the existing ones.
- ▪It’s also work that an LLM cannot do: they are symbol manipulators, not creators of symbols.
- ▪This is something that really irks me when I see the word "novel" used to describe an output of a LLM.
- ▪No, those things are not capable of actually doing anything novel, because novelty implies new symbols, not a less common combination of the existing ones.
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It’s also work that an LLM cannot do: they are symbol manipulators, not creators of symbols. This is something that really irks me when I see the word "novel" used to describe an output of a LLM. No, those things are not capable of actually doing anything novel, because novelty implies new symbols, not a less common combination of the existing ones.
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