> 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.
chrisjj|15 days ago
> 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.