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Language models cannot be a prior for learning from experience, because a prior needs a ground truth to be a prior about and they have none.
Drawn from what Richard Sutton said
SubjectLLMs
What Richard Sutton actually said
- Richard Sutton Computer scientist who founded the field of reinforcement learning
So there's no ground truth. You can't have prior knowledge if you don't have ground truth because the prior knowledge is supposed to be a hint or an initial belief about what the truth is.
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