Martin Wattenberg: Models within models - how do LLMs represent the world?

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Martin Wattenberg, Professor, Harvard University

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There's a weird personification of language models that nobody does for image generation models. It's weird to assume that these things "think", that they "do" things, when they're fundamentally no different than image generation models: they generate text that sometimes happens to be right. It's just that we've trained these models to *pretend* like they're intelligent.