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Ed Grefenstette: Language, Semantics, Cohere

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Are Large Language Models Good Zero Shot Communicators?

The linking between meaning and pragmatics I think is really interesting today. It does feel like we are conducting some real life experiments into how can picking up pragmatic language at a massive scale help models understand meaning if we are to call it understanding. And since you mentioned Manning earlier, I know there is some recent work out of his lab in particular showing how models like Ember sort of automatically learn linguistic structure in their data. But I'm curious how you reflect on that and perhaps some of the questions you just highlighted.

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