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MIT: LLMs Develop Their Own Understanding of Reality as Their Language Abilities Improve
August 16, 2024
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 16 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:

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In controlled experiments, MIT CSAIL researchers discover simulations of reality developing deep within LLMs, indicating an understanding of language beyond simple mimicry.

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By Alex Shipps, MIT CSAIL

Ask a large language model (LLM) like GPT-4 to smell a rain-soaked campsite, and it'll politely decline . . .

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