Communication, Vocalisation, and Language

Abstract:The contention is that the current batch of Large Language Models don't *understand* language, but they *do* it. Rather than LLMs forming some kind of ``distributed representation'' of symbols, the claim is that LLMs are capturing ``Cultural Intelligence'' and grounding symbols in what the sociologists call practices.

A written version of my argument with with Roger, with input from Bruce. 6 pages and one (Venn) diagram

Computation and Language (cs.CL)

arXiv:2610.16490 [cs.CL]

(or arXiv:2610.16490v1 [cs.CL] for this version)

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