Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language
by og_kalu on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @10:13PM
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>not of the underlying reality (which it has never experienced).
You've never experienced the "underlying reality" either.
Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language
by bitcuration on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:10AM
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Sure you did, all animal do. Without language, human would live just fine, evidently all animal live this way, deaf people can live, can reason, can triage, may not be sophisticated but they all the underlying reality in their heads, probably gained from try and fail, experiences.
The point is not so much that we already said it, more that the patterns it encodes and surfaces when prompted are patterns in the written corpus, not of the underlying reality (which it has never experienced). Much like a list of all the addresses in the US (or wherever) will tell you very little about the actual geography of the place.