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LLMs develop their own understanding of reality as their language abilities improve

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Researchers from MIT 's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have uncovered intriguing results suggesting that language models may develop their own understanding of reality.

After training on over 1 million random puzzles, they found that the model spontaneously developed its own conception of the underlying simulation.

Such findings call into question our intuitions about what types of information are necessary for learning linguistic meaning.

MIT researchers flipped the meanings of instructions for a new probe.

The new probe experienced translation errors, unable to interpret a language model that had different meanings of the instructions.

This meant the original semantics were embedded within the language model.

Future work can build on these insights to improve how language models are trained.

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