Browning and LeCun's essay of August 2022 argues that a system trained on words and sentences alone will never approximate human understanding, because language is a limited kind of knowledge representation, so that such systems are, in the essay's words, “doomed to a shallow understanding”.
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AI And The Limits Of Language → bears on → Language models lack agency or understanding