I'd like to see posts on LLMs written from a different perspective. For me, the surprise comes not from the sudden emergent capability of language models, but that the understanding (and synthesis!) of ideas encoded in language has succumbed to literally nothing more than statistical analysis. Or at least come that much closer to doing so.
That it bears so close a resemblance to actual thinking says more about the importance of language to cognition than the other way around.
That it bears so close a resemblance to actual thinking says more about the importance of language to cognition than the other way around.