Into the Linguistic Abyss: Do Large Language Models Truly Possess Hidden Depths? [Part I]
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4 min readAug 7, 2023
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…