“Yet even more wild is the widespread belief that language models lacking the major foundational components of human language (e.g., bounded compositionality mixed with unbounded generativity) will have any hope of meaningfully interfacing with audio/visual models in a way that accurately reflects human conceptual structure.”
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The authors call it even more wild than the expected unification of modalities in foundation models that people widely believe language models lacking major foundational components of human language (e.g., bounded compositionality mixed with unbounded generativity) have any hope of meaningfully interfacing with audio/visual models in a way that accurately reflects human conceptual structure.
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Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, Three ideas from linguistics that everyone in AI should know, paragraph 48.
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- language models lacking the major foundational components of human language (scope, stated by the speaker)
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: Marcus on AI, Three ideas from linguistics that everyone in AI should know
Yet even more wild is the widespread belief that language models lacking the major foundational components of human language (e.g., bounded compositionality mixed with unbounded generativity) will have any hope of meaningfully interfacing with audio/visual models in a way that accurately reflects human conceptual structure.
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- paragraph 48
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- 2022-06-22
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