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AI Will Understand Humans Better Than Humans Do
Or so says a controversial Stanford researcher, who finds that the latest systems have, against all odds, mastered a high-level cognitive skill.
Large language models like OpenAI’s, he claims, have crossed a border and are using techniques analogous to actual thought, once considered solely the realm of flesh-and-blood people (or at least mammals). In an email to me, the lead author, James Strachan, a postdoctoral researcher at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, doesn’t claim that LLMs have fully mastered theory of mind, but says his team did refute the cheating charge. Admittedly, the news industry didn’t do itself any favors initially by giving its content away online, but now most, if not all, places have abandoned the idea that digital ads alone can fund excellent writing and reporting.
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