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Computer Science > Computation and Language
Title: LLMs and the Human Condition
(Submitted on 13 Feb 2024 (v1), revised 21 Mar 2024 (this version, v2), latest version 8 May 2024 (v4))
Abstract: This paper presents three established theories of human decision-making and describes how they can be integrated to provide a model of purposive human action. Taking seriously the idea of language as action the model is then applied to the conversational user interfaces. Theory based AI research has had a hard time recently and the aim here is to revitalise interest in understanding what LLMs are actually doing other than running poorly understood machine learning routines over all the data the relevant Big Tech company can hoover up. When a raspberry pi computer for under 50USD is up to 400 times faster than the first commercial Cray super computer~\cite{crayVpi}, Big Tech can get really close to having an infinite number of monkeys typing at random and producing text, some of which will make sense. By understanding where ChatGPT's apparent intelligence comes from, perhaps we can perform the magic with fewer resources and at the same time gain some understanding about our relationship with our world.
Submission history
From: Peter Wallis [view email][v1] Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:04:43 GMT (16kb,D)
[v2] Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:02:26 GMT (16kb,D)
[v3] Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:51:44 GMT (316kb,D)
[v4] Wed, 8 May 2024 10:07:05 GMT (641kb,D)
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