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AI models just don't understand what they're talking about
Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago have proposed the term “potemkin understanding” to describe a newly identified failure mode in large language models that ace conceptual benchmarks but lack the true grasp needed to apply those concepts in practice.
It comes from accounts of fake villages – Potemkin villages – constructed at the behest of Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin to impress Empress Catherine II.
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