Most words we use don’t relate to single solid objects. If you say ‘I am hungry’, there’s no simple thing to point to for each word, but like most of your early language, they do relate to your experience of the real world. You don’t just learn with your mind, you learn with your whole body. 6/
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dude who came up with chinese room ~~was~~ is, sadly absolutely fucking rancid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle#Politics and it's hard not to see the othering in the use of chinese specifically outside of that context
Your premise is that language can’t be learned without senses.
I'm thinking ahead and worried about how the techbros will weaponize this argument to suggest that if they slap a few more sensors on the input to an LLM, it's suddenly strong AI. Bodily experience is necessary, not sufficient.
None of what I see (2024) is there yet.