230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Semantic Competence in Language Models: A Controversial Perspective
Language models can exhibit some degree of semantic competence, despite debates among researchers who often assert that these models only engage with surface-level text. Critics argue that language models operate merely on phonetic predictions without understanding the grounding of symbols in the real world, focusing solely on syntactic forms and the sequential arrangement of tokens. This perspective highlights a tension in current research about the capabilities of language models and the nature of their interaction with meaning.
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