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Their wordsLanguage is the memory of our ancestors; when we speak and think in English, we literally retrace history with our tongues.
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The real intelligence in large language models is the knowledge encoded in human language.
Their wordsThis, by the way, is the real “intelligence” in large language models. That pattern-matching machines can do so much with so little “reasoning” is a testament to the rich cognitive trove we’ve encoded in our collective linguistic productions.
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