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Created: 2025-07-17 00:30:00 UTC

Geoffrey Hinton says LLMs aren't just mimicking, they're making creative connections

When asked why a compost heap is like an atom bomb? GPT-4 pointed to chain reactions, which showed it understood abstract links

"it saw the analogy during training, not test time"

so, they're seeing analogies to compress knowledge, like humans do

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