The Shifting Definition of 'Neuralese': From Latent Reasoning to 'Shortspeak'
gleech · x · 2026-08-19
The community is debating the definition of "Neuralese". Originally referring to wordless, high-dimensional vectors for pure latent-space reasoning, the term was stretched to mean inscrutable text tokens within <think/> tags. Now, some use it to describe the peculiar way Fable uses English, with a proposal to call the latter "shortspeak".
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