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LLM Hype Cycle Fueled by Misleading Language, Critics Argue

The language used to describe Large Language Models (LLMs) contributes to a hype cycle, as it misrepresents their capabilities. LLMs do not truly 'learn' but rather encode tokens and their semantic relationships. They do not 'think' but rather process these relationships to refine their output, possessing 'knowledge' in a way analogous to a number line's inherent ordering. AI

IMPACT Misleading terminology around LLMs may inflate expectations and obscure their actual limitations and ethical concerns.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece discussing the language used to describe LLMs and their perceived capabilities.

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    Just dawned on me how much the language around LLMs works in favor of the hype cycle. An LLM does not "learn". It encodes words/tokens and their semantic relati

    Just dawned on me how much the language around LLMs works in favor of the hype cycle. An LLM does not "learn". It encodes words/tokens and their semantic relationships. The LLM doesn’t "think". It sorts through semantic relationships to narrow its scope. And it possesses "knowled…