Still "Talking About Large Language Models": Some Clarifications
Computation and Language
2024-12-16 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Abstract
My paper "Talking About Large Language Models" has more than once been interpreted as advocating a reductionist stance towards large language models. But the paper was not intended that way, and I do not endorse such positions. This short note situates the paper in the context of a larger philosophical project that is concerned with the (mis)use of words rather than metaphysics, in the spirit of Wittgenstein's later writing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2412.10291,
title = {Still "Talking About Large Language Models": Some Clarifications},
author = {Murray Shanahan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.10291},
year = {2024}
}