Alexandra Hooven

‘ James Bond is not really a character in this book. He is a mouthpiece for the man who inhabits him, a dummy for himself to hang clothes on, a zombie to perform the dreams of violence and daring which fascinate his creator .’

Bond is more industrious in the field than at the typewriter and no more is heard about this great unfinished work once his thoughts drift back to his previous assignment and time spent enjoying the company of the ill-fated Jill Masterson.

So far, there’s no evidence that large language models possess world models, even though some researchers and engineers believe they might naturally emerge over time. And it is this absence of grounded, rules-based modeling, Marcus recently argued, that explains why L.L.M.s often “hallucinate” in strange and unexpected ways: “What L.L.M.s do is to ... See more