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Dr. Brandon Rohrer - Robotics, Creativity and Intelligence

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Limitations of Transformers in Language Understanding

This chapter explores the fundamental limitations of transformers in understanding language, including their inability to handle recursively innumerable languages or support deep recursion. It also discusses how transformers can only work with character sequences and lack the ability to understand sensations or relate words to abstractions without explicit representation.

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