Hey folks!
Welcome to another issue of Insiders Weekly, the subscriber-only newsletter where I share my views on recent events in the world of artificial intelligence and computer science.
In this issue, as usual, Iāll tell you whatās in the oven and the near-term plans. Then Iāll continue on the topic we discussed last week regarding the limitations of current machine learning, especially large language models. In this issue, I will discuss the idea of āemergent abilitiesā and give my two cents on why it happens and what it means. Then Iāll give a couple more formal reasons why any language model in the current generation canāt really reason and what it would take to get us there.
Letās get onto it.
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