About whether an LLM saying 'I have a pen' can mean anything without real senses.
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Yes 48 (37%)Not sure 46 (36%)No 35 (27%)
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About whether an LLM saying 'I have a pen' can mean anything without real senses.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Well if you can show me an LLM responding to it's having a pen in its hand via a robotic hand, webcam and the like -- then we are at the bare minimum for it possibly meaning, "i have a pen in my hand".
No such LLMs exist, because they are trained to predict the next word not (WebCamState, RobotArmState, NextWord) -- since, at least, no such corpus exists