73: Consequences of Language (with Nick Enfield and Morten Christiansen)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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The Power of Distributional Learning
The study shows the power of distributional learning, which has been disputed for a long time. It's good to see a confirmation of this but making inferences from computers to humans has some limitations. We should also remember that Chateppi in OpenAI and all these services are spitting back to us what we've given them. Whereas kids actually have novel ideas in their head.
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