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Re:Language is not essential for the cognitive processes tha... by jhrmnn on Sunday October 20, 2024 @01:12AM (#41893022)
Even in cognitive tasks expressed via language, something like a memory feels necessary. At which point it’s not a LLM as in a generic language model. It would become a language model conditioned on the memory state.
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Re:Language is not essential for the cognitive processes tha... by ddingus on Sunday October 20, 2024 @04:00AM (#41893745)
More than a memory.

Needs to be a closed loop, running on its own.

We get its attention, and it responds, or frankly if we did manage any sort of sentience, even a simulation of it, then the fact is it may not respond.

To me, that is the real test.

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