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Distinguishing Learned vs. Emergent Skills

A large language model is trained exclusively on a vast corpus of text from encyclopedias and historical documents. After training, it demonstrates two new skills: (1) It can accurately answer factual questions about historical events mentioned in its training data. (2) It can write short, rhyming poems about those same historical events, despite having no poetry in its training set. Which of these two skills is a better example of an emergent ability, and why? Justify your reasoning.

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