Connectionists: Statistics versus “Understanding” in Generative AI.

[Gary Marcus]

Hypothesis 1: LLMs (deeply) understand language: false

Hypothesis 2: LLMs could play an important part of a larger, modular systems, perhaps neurosymbolic, and perhaps partly prestructured prior to learning, that could conceivably eventually deeply understand language: open for investigation 

> On Feb 19, 2024, at 6:50 AM, Iam Palatnik <iam.palat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I definitely feel like the [LLM + function-call + code-interpreter + external-source search