Elan Barenholtz

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Elan Barenholtz: Language Is an Autonomous Organism, Not a Tool · 13 Jun 2025 podcast

Uh uh actually uh producing a sequence and what that sequence is gonna do, it might do certain perceptual things by the

the way in your mind.

It might produce certain kinds of images.

Those are kind of auxiliary to language.

Those happen as well.

I'm not denying they happen.

But as far as this conversation goes, I am producing a sequence that's going to serve as a prompt.

And you're gonna predict the next token.

And that's that is that's in some ways the the you know, that not to you take that too seriously, but yes, in some rads w one way to think about it is that language is doing uh i is is actually forcing uh the your w your mind to do something else, whether it's produce images but also to produce sequences.

So my choice of a prompt is actually gonna

uh uh deterministically um

Th there there is within large language models there's some there's probabilistic kind of behavior in the sense that they generate a distribution uh of the next token and then they c you there the you you add some uh you as you add a little bit of chanciness.

Uh you know, you say maybe I'm gonna pick the most likely versus I mean this this uh this is the temperature.

But it really is deterministic and yes, the the prompt I'm gonna put into your head is going to basically determine how

How are you going to respond?

Uh now, mind you, again, it's there's a larger ecosystem where you're gonna think about things visually and that's gonna go feed back into the linguistic system.

So it's not quite as simple as prompt uh in and sequence out.

But at the linguistic level, that's basically what I'm arguing.

Um is now th the now the the fancy stuff, which is basically meaning and the ability to coordinate and all that, falls out of how

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