GPT-2’s “my lord” example and a question about language and cognition
A user says his father heard about a GPT-2 jester addressing a king as “my lord,” then wondered whether human language is “a fully general highly compressed mathematical isomorphism of human cognition.”
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A user recounts explaining a GPT-2 output to his father: a jester addressed a king as “my lord,” an example the user says Gwern saw as showing a rudimentary understanding of social hierarchy. After a pause, his father asked whether human language was “a fully general highly compressed mathematical isomorphism of human cognition.”
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