Venkatesh Rao (@contraptions): "A bit like RNA in the primordial soup Auto-catalytic seals-replicating molecule that turned out to also be a Turing complete complex machine construction coding system"

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A bit like RNA in the primordial soup

Auto-catalytic seals-replicating molecule that turned out to also be a Turing complete complex machine construction coding system

Elan Barenholtz

Mar 26

Is language an artifact?

LLMs revealed something astonishing: language is not a symbolic pointing system, a set of labels attached to things in the world. It is an autogenerative structure: self-sustaining, recursive, generated purely from its own internal relations. Predict the next token from distributional structure alone, and you g…

Mar 26

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