Comment by lelanthran

> The model isn't limited to concepts that can be expressed in natural language.

How do we know for sure? We don't even know how the emergent properties we see actually emerged?

For humans we know for sure that people sometimes have concepts that they have no word for (the reason the phrase "It's on the tip of my tongue" is a phrase, after all).

We don't know this for LLMs. When it makes new phrases, it's always a mixup of two existing words hyphenated (aside, that also seems to be the limits of SOTA models creativity - join two unrelated words together with a hyphen).

LLMs never respond with "It's on the tip of my tongue" type responses, indicating it has a concept but cannot remember (or does not have) a word for that concept. Every human, pre-speech-age, has managed to express or convey concepts that they had no word for.

So, no. I'd need a citation, preferably multiple, that did the trials and found that a model can generate concepts for which it does not have any words for.