learning a language is so fun. when i was a teen i had too much shame and too many extracurriculars to do much other than the spanish classes in high school, but linguistics in general has been a special interest that i kinda-sorta let go unloved? sorta. for me, tech and linguistics are one single larger interest. i like both for the same reasons. i wanna learn more languages!!!!
tetris nymph
in reply to tetris nymph • • •this leads me to what i hate most about LLMs. not the lies or the ecological evil, but the personal hatred of the field's utter disregard for any actual science of linguistics and languages. techniques of refining models do not represent advancements in processing language or generating useful responses. it's fancy guesswork that lies about being language.
i maintain that the responses generated by LLMs does not qualify as "language".