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272 Generative AI Doesn't Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 11/10/2024 17:34 EDT

Generative AI Doesn't Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find

Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem like the models are implicitly learning some general truths about the world, that isn't necessarily the case. The recent paper showed that Large Language Models and game-playing AI implicitly model the world, but the models are flawed an

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