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I'm not saying that language necessarily is the biggest stumbling block on (our) road towards AI, but it is a very prominent feature that we have used to distin

I'm not saying that language necessarily is the biggest stumbling block on (our) road towards AI, but it is a very prominent feature that we have used to distinguish our capabilities from other animals long before AI was even conceived of. So the current successes with LLMs are highly encouraging. I'm not buying the "current AI is just a dumb parrot relying on human training" argument, because the same thing applies to humans themselves-- if you raise a child without any cultural input/training data, all you get is a dumb cavemen with very limited reasoning capabilities.

nyeah 1y ago
"I'm not buying the "current AI is just a dumb parrot relying on human training" argument [...]" One difficulty. We know that argument is literally true. "[...] because the same thing applies to humans themselves" It doesn't. People can interact with the actual world. The equivalent of being passively trained on a body of text may be part of what goes into us. But it's not the only ingredient.