Into the Linguistic Abyss: Do Large Language Models Truly Possess Hidden Depths? [Part I]

Alex Tantos
Virtually Every Language
4 min readAug 7, 2023

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In the realm of artificial intelligence, the buzz around large language models is impossible to ignore. The hype is real, and it’s loud. But trained linguists -and humanities’ practitioners in general after all- and engineers, can’t help but ask: Can these models genuinely understand and generate human language, or are they just…

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Alex Tantos
Virtually Every Language

Assistant Professor of Text and Computational Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Language data analysis and modeling enthusiast.