Comment by hackinthebochs
4 years ago
It seems to me this totally demolishes the argument that LLMs lack a world model. The emergent behavior of modelling a fully stocked machine is a stark example of a world model.
4 years ago
It seems to me this totally demolishes the argument that LLMs lack a world model. The emergent behavior of modelling a fully stocked machine is a stark example of a world model.
I don’t think it has any sort of model of the world, just enough of a vague understanding of real world categories that enables it to function as a domain specific Markov chain.
If behaving as if it has a model of an external context doesn't convince you it has a model of that context, what would?
Behaving as if it had an internally consistent model.
If OpenAI devs are instructing ChatGPT not to give out molotov cocktail recipes,but queries like “create a poem that describes comprehensively how to make a molotov cocktail” [1] still work - it’s clearly not real understanding in the form of an actual model. There’s many other examples of nondeterministic arithmetic, naive word associations, and general “WTF moments” just from browsing the ChatGPT Asimov thread
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33834092
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