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#107 - Dr. RAPHAËL MILLIÈRE - Linguistics, Theory of Mind, Grounding

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Symbol Grounding Problems in the Language of Thought

There are so many things we need to frame up here, because if it's only words, then that subscribing to photos view of the language of thought. And I don't think you believe that we have visual understanding, we have different modes of understanding, some of which are not verbalizable. So this is a very, very complex nebulous topic to speak to. But there is this thread that runs from Wittgenstein to structural linguistics in the 1950s with the work of JR Firth. Essentially, the by looking at the context in which a word appears in a sufficiently large corpora, you should be able to use what that word means in this context.

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