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by lapsis_beeftech 200 days ago
Inference means synthesizing new facts from facts already known. A large language model only knows facts about language elements in its training corpus, therefore any reasoning based on such a model can only ever derive facts about language.
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Language is used by people to communicate facts about the world and people's internal states across time and space, therefore a language corpus contain information about the world and the people.