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A Conversation Between Terry Sejnowski & Stephen Wolfram (February 14, 2023) [Part 2]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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What's the Outer Loop of Human Language?

We say, we say a word or two in 100 milliseconds. We use what we use for doing things like sports and very complex thinking. What other things can we recruit from other parts of the brain to have quite different kinds of modalities of, of, of action? I mean, language has proved it pretty useful because it's a way of communicating abstract ideas from, you know, from generation to generation, so to speak. But here's something to keep in mind, which is that language is imperfect. It's very slippery, these concepts like intelligence or understanding, which people are arguing about,. They're saying, Oh, GBP3 can't possibly understand what it's talking about

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