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No, humans learn their languages through observation and generation - watching older people speak, and then imitating it. They get corrections, too, when they m
by meepmorp 3y ago
No, humans learn their languages through observation and generation - watching older people speak, and then imitating it. They get corrections, too, when they mispronounce or misuse words.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoThey mean at one point there were no older people to listen to in order to learn language because language did not exist yet. We somehow transitioned from grunts to words.
- enord 3y agoI didn’t say everyone learns it from scratch at least one, I said we did.
- meepmorp 3y agoThat's not learning, though, is it? Inventing, maybe, or developing or evolving.
- enord 3y agoWe either have the capacity to make boats and traverse the oceans or we don’t. These days almost nobody makes boats, but we sure used to and still can. What’s your point?
- meepmorp 3y agoI have no idea what you're talking about and it doesn't really matter to me anyway. Enjoy your day.
- CydeWeys 3y agoWhatever semantic game you want to play here isn't relevant; the point is it's something humans can do that AIs cannot.
- CydeWeys 3y agoYou've got a huge chicken and egg problem here that you haven't resolved.