<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Sorry you couldn't get through. The abstract for the abstract had to be submitted separately. Here it is.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">LLMs are strikingly good at generating text: their output is syntactically correct, coherent, and plausible. They seem capable of following instructions and of carrying out meaningful conversations. LLMs achieve these results by using transformers to produce text based on complex patterns in their training data. But powerful though they are, transformers have nothing to do with reasoning. LLMs have no means to build or to reason from internal models; they cannot backtrack or perform exploratory search; they cannot perform after-the-fact analysis; and they cannot diagnose and correct errors. More generally, LLMs cannot formulate, apply, or correct strategies or heuristics. In short, LLMs are not a step away from Artificial General Intelligence.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">A pdf of the full abstract is attached.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font><u style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><br></u></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font><u style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"> </u></font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:24.75px"> </span>-- Russ</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 10:12 AM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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if you're interested, my <a href="https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2024/me/submissions/N388VQ/" target="_blank">long abstract submission to
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<p>Russ -</p>
<p>I am interested in reading your abstract/paper...<u><br>
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<p>I signed up for an IACAP account but the link you provided seems
to be dead?</p>
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