> The 2020 Bender and Koller paper[1] that argues that meaning is not learnable from form, and LLMs are trained on form. They propose a thought experiment ("The

> The 2020 Bender and Koller paper[1] that argues that meaning is not learnable from form, and LLMs are trained on form. They propose a thought experiment ("The Octopus Test" section of the paper) featuring an octopus that can intercept the conversation two humans are having, but "having only form available as training data, [the Octopus] did not learn meaning." This is just Searle's Chinese Room, and it's obviously false. How can we know it's false? Because there is no "meaning" in the standard model of particle physics (all interactions are by "form"/syntax), and therefore all humans must learn meaning from "form" as well.