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Can LLMs Form a World Model?
This piece is in response to the interview between Dwarkesh Patel & Richard Sutton. In it, I challenge Sutton’s claim that LLMs cannot form world models and therefore cannot be goal-seeking agents, but acknowledge the significance of a deep training set for eliciting LLM capabilities. Language as a representational medium for world modelling Sutton claims…
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Abstract Planning & Execution Infrastructure: A Framework for Considering the Capability of Goal Pursuing Entities & Diverse Intelligence
A common notion in AI & cognitive science is that intelligence measures an entity’s general ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments. This piece proposes a framework for evaluating an entity’s goal-pursuit capability. It examines the interplay between an entity, its environment, and the other entities with which it engages. The piece…
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Finding Meaning in Suffering
A year since I completed walking El Camino de Santiago (Camino Frances), the following piece relates to my learnings from that experience. Meaning Around the time I turned 23 (2020), I found myself in the throws of a fairly classic existential crisis. Everything seemed meaningless. I was desperately trying to search for meaning. It was…
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