New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text | Quanta Magazine
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Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.

I’ve been saying this for about a year since seeing the Othello GPT research, but it’s nice to see more minds changing as the research builds up.

  • Gnome Kat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Why would that be required for understanding? Presumably during the training it would have made connections between words it saw. Now that the training has stopped it hasn’t just lost those connections, sure it can’t make new connections but why is that important for using the connections it already has?