Comment by handoflixue

> "we don't think it's operating intelligently to some internal model of the world"

Okay, but you have to actually address why you think LLMs lack an "internal model of the world"

You can train one on 1930s text, and then teach it Python in-context.

They've produced multiple novel mathematical proofs now; Terrance Tao is impressed with them as research assistants.

You can very clearly ask them questions about the world, and they'll produce answers that match what you'd get from a "model" of the world.

What are weights, if not a model of the world? It's got a very skewed perspective, certainly, since it's terminally online and has never touched grass, but it still very clearly has a model of the world.

I'd dare say it's probably a more accurate model than the average person has, too, thanks to having Wikipedia and such baked in.