alt Hacker NewsYou don’t understand. If humans had no words to describe a duck, they would still know what a duck is. Without words, LLMs would have no way to map an encounter with a duck to anything useful.
You don’t understand. If humans had no words to describe a duck, they would still know what a duck is. Without words, LLMs would have no way to map an encounter with a duck to anything useful.
Which makes sense for text LLMs yes, but what about LLMs that deal with images? How can you tell they wouldn't work without words? It just happens to be words we use for interfacing with them, because it's easy for us to understand, but internally they might be conceptualizing things in a multitude of ways.