Anthropic’s global-workspace paper hints at a fixed semantic coordinate system in LLMs
tszzl · x · 2026-07-26
- The author argues that Anthropic’s recent paper on global workspaces in LLMs sheds light on the Chinese Room puzzle.
- The most striking result is that averaging Jacobians across contexts can still produce a meaningful readout for which word a token would generate at a given layer.
- That suggests intermediate LLM representations may live in a shared, fixed coordinate system for meaning, rather than changing arbitrarily with context.
- In this view, different layers communicate in a common semantic language before producing the final output.
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