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> linguistic acquisition might have some similar innate system I thought that was pretty well established. From memory, if certain parts of the brain are damag
by wizofaus 4y ago
> linguistic acquisition might have some similar innate system
I thought that was pretty well established. From memory, if certain parts of the brain are damaged at key developmental periods (generally before the age of 18), language is almost never acquired properly (even if the damage is repaired).
I don't think there's any question human brains acquire language very differently to GPT technology.
And they certainly acquire the ability to reason logically very differently - ChatGPT makes trivial errors with reasoning that it's hard to imagine an adult human doing (e.g. I just gave it a classic classification problem based on 3 made-up categories, and asked "if I see something green with three legs, what is it", and it replied (in part) "It is also not a foo, as all foos are green. Therefore, the green thing with three legs would be classified as...".