[simianwords]

Yeah… LLMs clearly already have a world model

[thomastjeffery]

I think it's a good distinction to make between having and being, which seems to be what the whole "stochastic parrots" bit was intended to make all along.

It doesn't make sense to say a model is in possession of its self. That's exactly the sort of poetic anthropomorphization that Bender was criticising here, and a good reason to not refer to an LLM as "an AI".

[simianwords]

Wow this is exactly kind of pedanticism that annoys me with Bender. Glad that this kinda thing is becoming unpopular.

[thomastjeffery]

There is more here then pedantry, but if you aren't interested in it, then go right ahead and live your life.