# \#theory-of-mind

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## [“Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models”](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/theory-of-mind-may-have-spontaneously-emerged-in-large-language-models/2741)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
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**Last updated:** [13 September 2024 17:36 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/theory-of-mind-may-have-spontaneously-emerged-in-large-language-models/2741 "2024-09-13T17:36:23Z")

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One of the scenarios for the advent of super-human artificial general intelligence (AGI), particularly common in dystopian and cautionary science fiction, is spontaneous emergence—the idea that a system designed for othe…