In the Paris example, if the researchers were testing proper responses based on syntax, why did they posit that "France" is the correct response to "Can you tell me where to find Paris?"? The correct ...

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Good news, kind of. I discovered a new sentence structure I hate. It’s a pattern I see often but only recently, while editing an article, realized it belongs in my writing hall of shame. Why would I ...

Emphases mine to make a point. "This suggests models absorb both meaning and syntactic patterns, but can overrely...." No, LLMs do not "absorb meaning," or anything like meaning. Meaning implies ...