The main division was about why language appeared; to structure thought, communication, or both. But I genuinely don’t think anyone serious would claim reasoning appeared because of language. …or that if you feed enough tokens to a neural network it’ll become smart.
Well, and whether intelligence is required for mastery of language. Not even that long ago, in 2009, my linguistics professor held a forum discussion within the linguistics, informatics, and philosophy departments at my school where they each gave their perspectives on whether true mastery of language could exist without intelligence.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Linguists were divided until recently, to be fair.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 day ago
The main division was about why language appeared; to structure thought, communication, or both. But I genuinely don’t think anyone serious would claim reasoning appeared because of language. …or that if you feed enough tokens to a neural network it’ll become smart.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, and whether intelligence is required for mastery of language. Not even that long ago, in 2009, my linguistics professor held a forum discussion within the linguistics, informatics, and philosophy departments at my school where they each gave their perspectives on whether true mastery of language could exist without intelligence.