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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 363
Large Language Models display an uncanny ability to construct human-sounding speech, and can synthesize concepts in novel ways. Is this because they are truly thinking like human beings in some way, or have they found a way to be human-like without reproducing the internal mechanisms of human thought? Chandra Sripada…
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