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BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes
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How to Think About Language and Symbols in Process Thinking
The most recent celebration in AI are these what are known as foundation models or large language models. These are based on words, which are tokens that then are vectorized into sub symbolic structures. We think that we're special because of our ability to generate language and understand it. So I don't know if you have thought about this, but this harkens back to the concept of abstraction that we were talking about before in intelligence. And part that's part of our intelligence is to be able to abstract and create a concept or and or a symbol.
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