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Gary Marcus points out that while LLMs can adapt to any world, human cognition is specialized for our universe, as illustrated by fundamental physics like the inverse square law.
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- LLMs perform consistently across all possible worlds, unlike humans who evolved
- Einstein's theories clarified why gravity follows an inverse square law instead
- Marcus references his 2023 discussion with Chomsky at Web Summit exploring AI ve
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Large language models can learn any hypothetical world, but human minds are adapted specifically to ours.
The inverse square law reflects geometric properties of real space, which underpin human perception and reasoning.
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- LLM与人类认知差异
- 模型适应性
- 适用于任意世界
- 人类专属性
- 基于本体世界构建
- 物理基础
- 平方反比律体现空间维度
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LLMs are equally comfortable learning any world, whereas humans are built for our world.
It wasn’t until Einstein's work that we fully understand the reason behind the inverse square law.
See also Chomsky’s 2023 conversation with me Web Summit on YouTube.
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this bit on physics is deep and actually resonates with the fact that LLMs are equally comfortable learning any world, whereas humans are built for our world. See also Chomsky’s 2023 conversation with me Web Summit on YouTube.
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American physicist Edward Witten explains why it wasn’t until Einstein's work that we fully understand the reason behind the inverse square law, and why it's specifically a square rather than some arbitrary decimal 1 / distance² vs. 1 / distance¹·⁷⁴⁸²²⋅⋅⋅
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