alt Hacker News> The "world model" of a human, or any other animal, is built pursuant to predicting the environment
What do you make of Immanuel Kant's claim that all thinking has as a basis the presumption of the "Categories"--fundamental concepts like quantity, quality and causality[1]. Do LLMs need to develop a deep understanding of these?
Embodied cognition implies that we understand our world in terms of embodied metaphor "categories".
LLMs don't reason, they emulate. RLHF could cause an LLM to discard text that doesn't look like reasoning according to the words in the response, but that's still not reasoning or inference.
"LLMs cannot find reasoning errors, but can correct them" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38353285
Conceptual metaphor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor
Embodied cognition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition
Clean language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_language
Given human embodied cognition as the basis for LLM training data, there are bound to be weird outputs about bodies from robot LLMs.