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A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human.

Drawn from what Sean Carroll said

SubjectsLLMsevolutionary biology
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evolutionary biology Natural selection as an explanation, including the problem of how cooperation survives it.

What Sean Carroll actually said

  1. Sean Carroll Theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University
    What a large language model is trying to do is to predict text. That’s what it does. And it is leveraging the fact that we human beings for very good evolutionary biology reasons, attribute intentionality and intelligence and agency to things that act like human beings.

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    Watch from 1:37:02 plays here

    ↗Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #428youtube.com

    22 Apr 2024 · video · 2h 35m · spoken · official transcript

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