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Jeremy Howard: LLMs 'cosplay' understanding, not truly comprehending

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Jeremy Howard argues that Large Language Models (LLMs) do not possess genuine understanding, but rather excel at mimicking comprehension. He suggests that their impressive performance is akin to cosplay, where they convincingly imitate human-like responses without true internal reasoning. This perspective challenges the notion of emergent consciousness or understanding in current AI systems. AI

IMPACT Challenges the perception of AI understanding, suggesting current LLMs mimic rather than comprehend.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece by a named credible voice (Jeremy Howard) on AI capabilities.

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Jeremy Howard: LLMs 'cosplay' understanding, not truly comprehending

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  1. Machine Learning Street Talk TIER_1 English(EN) · Machine Learning Street Talk ·

    LLMs Cosplay Understanding (Jeremy Howard)

    Jeremy Howard, co-founder of fast.ai and Answer.AI, on the endless online argument over whether LLMs "really" understand. His answer is that both sides are right: LLMs cosplay understanding, much like the man in Searle's Chinese room. For a great many tasks the difference doesn't…

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