This word “understanding” is being used to examine a broader, more philosophical question of motivation, of trying to parse why the LLMs respond to queries in the ways they do, but today’s, and the foreseeable future’s worth of tomorrow’s, LLMs don’t have motivation in the human sense.
The Steerswoman Review
A scene early on, when Rowan attempts to explain how objects fall, and accidentally constructs the Newton’s Canon thought experiment captures the mood of the story, the temperament of the protagonist, and, when I read it, captured my attention for the remainder of the book.
How We Know
The study of how we know is known as epistemology, and its extensive philosophical tradition offers three main schools of thought that each have innumerable permutations presented by every philosopher who has ever philosophized: skepticism, rationalism, and empiricism.
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