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> it would represent a kind of non-linguistic general intelligence ability which would be remarkable to find in a language model As a relative outsider to this
by jkhdigital 6y ago
> it would represent a kind of non-linguistic general intelligence ability which would be remarkable to find in a language model
As a relative outsider to this field, I don’t really see the stark line between natural language and general intelligence implied by this statement. Language is just abstractions encoded in symbols, and general intelligence is just the ability to construct and manipulate abstractions. Seems reasonable to think that these are two sides of the same coin.
Put another way, natural language is the product of general intelligence.
- remexre 6y agoI think the line you'd see is that there exists some task where the language-based model suddenly lacks the ability to perform the task despite the fact that it "should." I'd conjecture that this might include something like describing where places are in relation to each other, and asking it to describe a route. (Not an NLP expert, but work with AI folks; this task chosen as an example because it seems like something you'd want a planner for rather than anything MLful.)