[meroes]

That’s amazing because made up language might also just be context scaffolding sans reasoning, e.g. it’s arbitrary extra context for machines to relate human text better. I’m not even trying to play devils advocate—-like both sides, true believers or pessimists, come up with wholly unconvincing arguments. (I genuinely don’t know if the tweet is a true believer or not). At least the pessimists aren’t coupled with the AI marketeers.

[mondrian]

Also in the vicinity: https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language...

There's also distillation, where you can drastically improve a small model by training it on chains of thoughts of larger models. You can't achieve the same performance by training on original human texts. This suggests that those chains of thoughts reliably contain "densely packed reasoning", meaning the LLM probably has developed internal clusters of "reasoning circuitry", loosely speaking.