Re:Recursive language and modern imagination acquired 70k ye...
by blevo on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:52PM
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One may not think in a common language used to communicate (e.g. English) but the way one thinks could be considered a language regardless, only specific to one's own mind.
Take for instance Google's translation AI. It developed its own intermediary language[1] which facilitated translation between languages and enabled it to even translate languages it had not specifically been trained on.[2]
[1]e.g. It had a "word" for dog that wasn't part of any existing language.
[2]e.g. it could translate Spanish -> French even though it was only trained on Spanish -> English and English -> French
Re:Recursive language and modern imagination acquired 70k ye...
by ltbarcly3 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:17PM
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This is a very sneaky argument that misses the point I think, you are effectively defining any sharing of information as a language, then using that definition.
Take for instance Google's translation AI. It developed its own intermediary language[1] which facilitated translation between languages and enabled it to even translate languages it had not specifically been trained on.[2]
[1]e.g. It had a "word" for dog that wasn't part of any existing language.
[2]e.g. it could translate Spanish -> French even though it was only trained on Spanish -> English and English -> French