AI And The Limits Of Language
An essay by Jacob Browning and Yann LeCun, Noema Magazine, dated 23 August 2022. datePublished of the page, 23 August 2022.
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- Language models lack agency or understandingBrowning 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”.2022-08-23 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Language models lack agency or understanding: propositions page →
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