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As a lay-person I'm really confused by this. I thought it was obvious that these networks were already picking up on shared features such as 'being V-shaped'. Isn't that why older and smaller models were getting confused between objects? What am I missing.
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If you view LLMs as lossy data compressors, this exactly what you'd expect.
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If your view is anthropomorphic, i.e. LLMs internal form being structurally equivalent to ours at a basic level, this is also exactly what you'd expect.
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Why would it 'randomly' place things anyway. If there is ever a space constraint the most space-saving way is to group into highly generalizable concepts.
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