@incrementaliser: Just finished watching a gem by @ChrisGPotts , "Finding linguistic structure in large language models", and I'm now pro…

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A tweet highlights Chris Potts' talk on how large language models learn linguistic structures, reinforcing the view that LLMs capture syntax and semantics.

Just finished watching a gem by @ChrisGPotts , "Finding linguistic structure in large language models", and I'm now properly convinced that *LLMs do learn linguistic structures*. I guess the only argument for neuro-symbolic models (compared to ...
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