Language models imply world models

🫧 Open on Bubbles In a recent article about John Haugeland's rejection of micro-worlds I claimed: as a “Large Language Model”, Claude necessarily includes a model of the world in general Nobody has objected to this remark, but I would like to expand on it. The claim may or may not be true — it is an empirical question. But as a theory it has been widely entertained since the very earliest days of digital computers. Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, the first person to seriously investigate machine translation, came ...