Language Models' Planning Abilities Unveiled: Myopic Or Foresighted?
Research reveals current language models lack strong planning capabilities, focusing mainly on immediate next token rather than long-term context.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Language Models' Foresight Unveiled: Are They Really Planning Ahead?. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow me on Twitter. Overview The research paper investigates whether language models plan for future tokens when generating text. It proposes a method to measure a language model's ability to plan for future tokens and evaluates several models using this approach. The findings suggest that current language models do not exhibit strong planning capabilities and often generate text...