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I'm arguing against the notion that these LLMs exhibit "emergent behaviour" as you stated. I don't believe they do, as the term is commonly understood. Emergent behavior usually implies the exhibition of some kind of complexity from a fundamentally simple system. But these LLMs are not fundamentally simple, when considered together with the vast corpus of training data to which they are inextricably linked.

The emergent behavior of Conway's Game of Life arises purely out of the simple rules upon which the simulation proceeds -- a fundamental difference.

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did you read the article?

emergent behavior in this context is defined as: "emergent abilities, which we define as abilities that are not present in small models but are present in larger models"

>The emergent behavior of Conway's Game of Life arises purely out of the simple rules upon which the simulation proceeds -- a fundamental difference.

this is a meaningless distinction.

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> emergent behavior in this context is defined as: "emergent abilities, which we define as abilities that are not present in small models but are present in larger models"

Then I don't know why you brought up Game of Life because it obviously has nothing to do with this alternative definition of emergent behavior.

> this is a meaningless distinction.

It's meaningful with respect to the claim that LLMs exhibit emergent behavior in the same way in which Game of Life does.