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For a particularly striking example of the opposite problem, see people with Wernicke's Aphasia [1]. Here's an example [2] of a man who had a stroke that left h
by chongli 4y ago
For a particularly striking example of the opposite problem, see people with Wernicke's Aphasia [1]. Here's an example [2] of a man who had a stroke that left him with the disorder. He can speak fluently but his speech is meaningless.
Byron can understand what's happening in the world around him and can communicate it through body language (just see the warmth in his eyes and his smile) but when he speaks everything comes out in a stream of nonsense.
If we tried to apply a language-model-centric view of intelligence we would rate Byron is unintelligent. That would clearly be a mistake, as anyone can plainly see that he is intelligent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptive_aphasia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptive_aphasia
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oef68YabD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oef68YabD0
- shkkmo 4y agoI would point put out that the symbolic structures that enhance han intelligence were implanted during that patient's early life and while the external connection to those structures may have been severed, that doesn't mean that the complicated semantic structures don't still exist. The contrapositive would be to show a clearly intelligent human with no communication ability that can still model the human world accurately. Past such examples don't tend to show this, though the co morbidity with no early human contact and severe developmental nutritional deficiency makes it hard to be sure.
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