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BI 144 Emily M. Bender and Ev Fedorenko: Large Language Models

Brain Inspired

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How to Study Language in Humans

The interface between language and actual kind of thinking and reasoning capacities, I'm dying to understand how that works. We don't have great tools for studying those kinds of questions but we're trying to figure out if we can get really clever with fMRI. There's some pretty foundational work by Charles Hawket looking at design features of language before we call it a language. If you're saying humans are better descriptive than animals because we or humans are more sophisticated then it's worthwhile to define our terms in different ways.

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