Good LLM Writing May Require Human-Like Theory of Mind and Embodiment

Joshua Saxe argues that for LLMs to truly write well—whether prose or code—they may need human-like theory of mind grounded in mirror neurons, possibly requiring embodied intelligence beyond current RLHF and pretraining approaches.

2026-08-25 ~ 2026-08-25 · 2 related posts

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