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Professor Elan Barenholtz

06/12/25

@ Curt Jaimungal

The challenge remains to understand how autonomous linguistic systems can effectively bridge to perceptual systems, allowing for coherent communication and action in the world.

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The Theory That Shatters Language Itself

@ Curt Jaimungal

The Theory That Shatters Language Itself

06/12/25

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Professor Elan Barenholtz

06/12/25

@ Curt Jaimungal

The distinction between linguistic and perceptual systems suggests that while they can communicate, they operate in fundamentally different spaces, each with its own rules and properties.

Elan Barenholtz

06/12/25

@ Curt Jaimungal

Language is a semi-autonomous, auto-generative system that doesn't fully grasp the meaning of what it communicates, unlike the sensory perceptual system.

Professor Elan Barenholtz

06/12/25

@ Curt Jaimungal

Language is a self-contained, autoregressive system that doesn't inherently connect to the external world, challenging our understanding of mind and perception.

Elon Musk

12/29/21

@ Lex Fridman

The challenge of self-driving includes solving perception problems, such as recognizing objects and predicting their movements, even when they are occluded.

Professor Elan Barenholtz

06/12/25

@ Curt Jaimungal

The realization that language operates as an autonomous system reveals that it can generate meaningful sequences without needing to reference external concepts or grounding.

Professor Elan Barenholtz

06/12/25

@ Curt Jaimungal

The relationship between language and perception is complex; while language can describe perceptual experiences, it does not inherently contain the qualitative aspects of those experiences.

Murray Shanahan

06/29/17

@ Y Combinator

Current AI technologies excel in specific tasks like image recognition and speech processing, but they still struggle with genuine understanding of language.

Eric Schmidt

05/16/25

@ TED

The shift from language processing to planning and strategy in AI indicates that future systems will manage entire business processes autonomously, communicating with each other in English.

Sam Altman

08/02/19

@ Khosla Ventures

AI systems can be tricked, similar to humans, and as we advance in unsupervised learning, we may develop systems that achieve a level of conceptual understanding.