Embodiment
Why a body and senses matter for understanding, and what a model misses without them.
2 essays, newest first
- The Vector Does a model actually understand, or just predict words? Meaning is not stored as words. It is stored as vectors, and language is only the zip file we ship them in. Part 4 of Not So Artificial.
- A Word Is Not a Concept Fei-Fei Li says language models are ungrounded. She named the wrong gap. The case that meaning is built by analogy, not by a body.
