Debate: Can LLMs Have Real Cognitive Structures?

A debate questions whether LLMs can encode genuine cognitive structures, with one side arguing that distributed weight-based representations are geometrically unstructured and cannot be surgically repaired, while others contend alternative modeling approaches exist.

2026-09-21 ~ 2026-09-21 · 2 related posts

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