It feels like an exercise in anthropomorphization to me.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is generally not considered to be reality. It makes intuitive sense but is wrong.
There are hours of podcasts with Chomsky talking about LLMs. The gist of which is that LLMS are extracting surface level statistical structure of language that will be good for routine coding and not much else. It is easy to infer that Chomsky would believe this idea to be utter nonsense.
I believe even the idea of getting a 1000 people together and we agree to label a rock "rock", a tree "tree", a bird "bird" is not even how human language works. Something that is completely counter intuitive.
Reading the paper, no one believes a hidden markov model is creating some kind of new thought process in the hidden state.
I certainly though could have no idea what I am talking about with all this and have pieced together parts that make no sense while this is a breakthrough path to AGI.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is generally not considered to be reality. It makes intuitive sense but is wrong.
There are hours of podcasts with Chomsky talking about LLMs. The gist of which is that LLMS are extracting surface level statistical structure of language that will be good for routine coding and not much else. It is easy to infer that Chomsky would believe this idea to be utter nonsense.
I believe even the idea of getting a 1000 people together and we agree to label a rock "rock", a tree "tree", a bird "bird" is not even how human language works. Something that is completely counter intuitive.
Reading the paper, no one believes a hidden markov model is creating some kind of new thought process in the hidden state.
I certainly though could have no idea what I am talking about with all this and have pieced together parts that make no sense while this is a breakthrough path to AGI.