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by ux-app 1211 days ago
did you read the article?

emergent behavior in this context is defined as: "emergent abilities, which we define as abilities that are not present in small models but are present in larger models"

>The emergent behavior of Conway's Game of Life arises purely out of the simple rules upon which the simulation proceeds -- a fundamental difference.

this is a meaningless distinction.

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> emergent behavior in this context is defined as: "emergent abilities, which we define as abilities that are not present in small models but are present in larger models"

Then I don't know why you brought up Game of Life because it obviously has nothing to do with this alternative definition of emergent behavior.

> this is a meaningless distinction.

It's meaningful with respect to the claim that LLMs exhibit emergent behavior in the same way in which Game of Life does.

>It's meaningful with respect to the claim that LLMs exhibit emergent behavior in the same way in which Game of Life does.

I said it's amazing in __similar__ ways to Conway's Game of Life.

i.e. a system which behaves in unexpected ways (emergent abilities) and is greater than the sum of its parts.