Are LLMs Partial Lookup Tables? 2025/04/29 Many of you might be familiar with Searle's Chinese room thought experiment. If not, here's the basic idea. A person is sitting in a room which has an opening, through which sometimes the outside world deposits pieces of paper, full of Chinese characters. Now, our person doesn't actually understand Chinese; fortunately though, the room also contains a copious amount of notes, describing sequences of characters that could come in & instructions for th...
