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		paulddraper 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AGI is not multimodal Missed opportunity to quote Einstein: "The words of the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought." [1] [1] A Mathematician's Mind, Testimonial for An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field by Jacques S. Hadamard, Princeton University Press, 1945

lostmsu 6 months ago [–]

To be clear LLMs also don't think in words (or tokens). That's not even a guess, the "seem" is not needed for LLMs.

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