Meaning, Form and the Limits Natural Language Processing

This article engages the anthropological assumptions underlying the apprehensions and promises associated with language in artificial intelligence (AI). First, we present the contours of two rivalling paradigms for assessing artificial language generation: a holistic-enactivist theory of language an...

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Authors: Dürr, Oliver 1993- (Author) ; Segessenmann, Jan (Author) ; Steinmann, Jan Juhani 1988- (Author)
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Language:German
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Published: Mohr Siebeck 2023
In: Philosophy, theology and the sciences
Year: 2023, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 42-72
RelBib Classification:NBE Anthropology
NCJ Ethics of science
Further subjects:B Common-sense
B Enactivism
B Language
B Artificial general intelligence (AGI)
B Ai
B Understanding
B Embodied cognition
B Information
B philosophy of language
B Large Language Models (LLMs)
B Meaning
B Autonomous machine intelligence
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