Talking about Large Language Models
2024/01/25 by Murray Shanahan · 1 voice · 315 citations
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Computer science #Language and cultural evolution #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Natural language processing #Programming language #Topic Modeling
paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/3624724
published in Communications of the ACM 67(2), 68-79 (Association for Computing Machinery)
openalex publication_date 2024/01/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract
Interacting with a contemporary LLM-based conversational agent can create an illusion of being in the presence of a thinking creature. Yet, in their very nature, such systems are fundamentally not like us.
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