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GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language (fast.ai)
4 points by malshe on March 20, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Language is overrated. It’s visible, and once written down or recorded it is stuck in place like a specimen on a microscope slide and can be poked, prodded and is conveniently unable to defend itself. (Derrida, Badiou, etc. take advantage of this)

Birds and mammals can do almost all the same cognition we do however, but do it without language.

The success of ChatGPT is remarkable and will lead people to return to “language is all you need”, but its deceptive.




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