19min chapter

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Elon, Sex, AI, and Free Will (among other things) (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

The Wright Show

CHAPTER

Debate on Large Language Models and Evolution of Language

The chapter explores the debate on the development of large language models and its connection to the evolutionary process of language in the human brain. It discusses the implications for the blank slate view of the mind, the role of natural selection in language evolution, and the contrast between how language is acquired by machines like Large Language Models (LLMs) versus how children learn naturally.

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