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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org ("Brewster Kahle") wrote:

new paper on AI: "New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text"

Quanta mag writes a layman version of a new paper. Seems important. (I *think* I get it). How LLM's can be 'creative' (novel) and 'understand' (generalize) and demonstrate its true in GPT-4, and better than GPT-3.5.

"Far from being 'stochastic parrots,' the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-suggests-chatbots-can-understand-text-20240122/