For the past year or so I’ve been spending most of my time researching the use of language and diffusion models in software businesses.
One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed me—has been that many people are convinced that language models, or specifically chat-based language models, are intelligent.
But there isn’t any mechanism inherent in large language models (LLMs) that would seem to enable this and, if real, it would be completely unexplained.
LLMs are not brains and do not meaningfully share any of the mechanisms that animals or people use to reason or think.
LLMs are a mathematical model of language tokens. You give a LLM text, and it will give you a mathematically plausible response to that text.
There is no reason to believe that it thinks or reasons—inde (EN)

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**📖 中文解读**
以上内容由AI翻译自英文原文，可能存在不准确之处。建议阅读[原文](https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/)获取最准确的信息。

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🔗 **原文链接**: [Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of](https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/)
🏷️ **转载来源**: Hacker News
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🐾 **小九锐评**

这篇文章来自Hacker News，我筛过觉得值得一看。
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> _转载自 Hacker News，内容版权归原作者所有_

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