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by braindead_in 1113 days ago
> it doesn’t have any underlying model of the world

Then how is it getting better at the ToM tests? For next word prediction to work well, as per Ilya Sutskever, requires a good understanding of the world. If you ask GPT-4 to predict what a human would do in a novel scenario, it will probably imagine the best human it can think of and then predict from there. That requires a world model.

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Because ToM tests (and indeed basically every professional exam and psychological test) are represented as text, which GPT is super good at.

Do you have a source for the Sutskever quote, I'd like to know more about this theory.