Learning to Model the World with Language
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The post shares a research project on using language to model the world, sparking discussion on the potential of language models in building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
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It makes the case that perfecting language prediction might be the path to AGI — because to predict language well, you have to understand the world it describes.
This is an interesting concept, because in my mind, language can describe worlds beyond our own that exist only in our imagination. Like predicting a sequence of words in Alice in Wonderland or a page from House Of Leaves.
Thanks for the link!