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by redlock 490 days ago
Parent poster did say they are aware they don’t know but can’t express it.

I am guessing he is referring to mechanistic interpretability research like these:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16908

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03282

You are claiming they are statistical parrots, which I don’t think the parent poster meant.

The “statistical parrots” argument might have been compelling with GPT-3, but not with today’s models and the results of mechanistic interpretability research, which show internal representations and rudimentary world models.