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Researcher bias and the hardware lottery contribute to apparent convergence in AI models beyond the proposed theoretical pressures

Alternative explanation for observed convergence: AI community designs systems to mimic human reasoning

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The Platonic Representation Hypothesis

(2024) · Minyoung Huh · Brian Cheung · Tongzhou Wang · Phillip Isola

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The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
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Different neural network models trained on different objectives and modalities are converging to a shared statistical model of reality in their representation spaces
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The central hypothesis of the paper; the platonic representation hypothesis itself

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