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Edward Gibson: uncertainty

17 Apr 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

“Oh, another fascinating little tidbit is that even if they’re these constructed languages like Klingon or I don’t know the languages from Game of Thrones, I’m sorry, I don’t remember those languages.”

— Edward Gibson

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Speaker
Edward Gibson
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
17 Apr 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…That’s pretty weird. So that’s one set of data. Hers shows that what you might think is thinking is not language. Language is just this conventionalized system that we’ve worked out in human languages. Oh, another fascinating little tidbit is that even if they’re these constructed languages like Klingon or I don’t know the languages from Game of Thrones, I’m sorry, I don’t remember those languages. Maybe you- There’s a lot of people offended right now.…

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