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Comment by kennywinker

Is there a way for an llm to coin a word, and absorb it into its model? During training maybe… but not after - not the way they’re designed now, anyway.

For it to have new vocabulary we dont understand, it needs to have novel ideas that need words coined for them, and a way to persist those ideas and words into the future. I don’t think that exists.

To me this hypothetical make it clear this won’t happen, not unless there are fundamental changes to what llms are. It doesn’t suggest it will happen. To me, anyway.

parent kennywinker 1 month ago

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