1 pointby gbacon3 hours ago1 comment
  • chrisjj3 hours ago
    > as a “Large Language Model”, Claude necessarily includes a model of the world in general

    > as a theory it has been widely entertained since the very earliest days of digital computers. Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, the first person to seriously investigate machine translation, came to this conclusion in the 1950s.

    > Bar-Hillel says, and I agree, that an accurate model of language requires an accurate model of the world.

    This is a schoolboy error. Requires != includes.