Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)A thought experiment in the National Library of Thailand—or why #ChatGPT (or any other language model) isn't actually understanding.
Jörg Knappen@emilymbender In fact, unsupervised machine translation is possible, given large enough language models. For references, see https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/34102/9781
Could the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been deciphered without the Rosetta Stone with modern tech?
The Rosetta Stone was one of the most important documents in the history of linguistics. Discovered around 1800, it allowed Ancient Egyptian to be deciphered. Let's say that the stone didn't exist,...