Muddles about Models

Can large language models take the place of traditional search engines? For us to have confidence in them, we would need to know that they haven’t been fed propaganda and conspiracy theories—we’d need to know that the jpeg is capturing the right sections of the Web. But, even if a large language model includes only the information we want

What we need is not just “deeper” learning, in the sense of having more layers in a neural network, but deeper understanding. We need systems that can truly reason about the complex interplay of entities that causally relate to one another in an ever-changing world.