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SUMMARY:A sanity check on emergent properties - Anna Rogers\, IT Universit
 y of Copenhagen
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CONTACT:Panagiotis Fytas
DESCRIPTION:One of the frequent points in the mainstream narrative about l
 arge language models is that they have "emergent properties" (sometimes ev
 en dangerous enough to be considered existential risk to mankind). However
 \, there is much disagreement about even the very definition of such prope
 rties. If they are understood as a kind of generalization beyond training 
 data - as something that a model does without being explicitly trained for
  it - I argue that we have not in fact established the existence of any su
 ch properties\, and at the moment we do not even have the methodology for 
 doing so.\n
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