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Large language models mimic what people say to do rather than work out what to do, which is why they are not about understanding the world.

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  1. Richard Sutton

    Computer scientist who founded the field of reinforcement learning

    reinforcement learning is about understanding your world whereas large language models are about mimicking people doing what people say you should do. They're not about figuring out what to do.

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