Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data
A research paper by Emily M. Bender and Alexander Koller, Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the ACL, dated July 2020. ACL 2020 proceedings, July 2020.
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- Meaning without reference in large language modelsPiantadosi and Hill's paper of August 2022 replies to Bender and Koller's paper of 2020, which it names and whose octopus test it discusses.2022-08-05 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Piantadosi and Hill, Meaning without reference in large language models (2022): document page →
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- Language models lack agency or understandingBender and Koller's paper of July 2020 argues that a system trained only on linguistic form has a priori no way to learn meaning, so that the language-modelling task cannot in principle lead to learning meaning.2020-07 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Language models lack agency or understanding: propositions page →
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