
Special Episode: Language in Brains and Machines
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Indignant Attitude of Philosophers of Mind
Jerry Photo: I'm going to channel the indignant attitude that I've heard from other people of look philosophers of mind have been trying to work out in the abstract what constitutes a mind. They say basically that these machine learning models tell us nothing at all about language or the mind and that they're just complicated parrots essentially. He says there are certainly people who hold of you that it human well human cognition more generally and language specifically may just be a very large neural network with lots of data typically they come from the machine learning space then there are also on the other side particularly I think philosophers so no Chomsky is an example of this.
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