Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure from Disparate Training Data — mentioned by Jabrov

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:29:00 GMT

I’m so tired of hearing this be repeated, like the whole “LLMs are _just_ parrots” thing. It’s patently obvious to me that LLMs can reason and solve novel problems not in their training data. You can test this out in so many ways, and there’s so many examples out there. ______________ Edit for responders, instead of replying to each: We obviously have to define what we mean by "reasoning" and "solving novel problems". From my point of view, reasoning != general intelligence. I also consider reasoning to be a spectrum. Just because it cannot solve the hardest problem you can think of does not…

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Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure from Disparate Training Data — HN submission

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:55:20 GMT

Connecting the Dots: LLMs Can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure

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Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure from Disparate Training Data — mentioned by Jabrov

Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure from Disparate Training Data — HN submission