Language as a public tool to understand the private life.
important to our self-knowledge ⇒ emphasise through reading books.
communication.
Notably through the work of “Philosophical Investigations” by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Concept of “language-game”
- The idea that each of us construct a pictures that we see the world through language.
- Conflict arose when pictures are not aligned, often lead to context collapse.
Possibly the most salient feature of LLMs is that the system is surprising patient per each interactions with humans.
representations.
Language models is a representation of our knowledge.
Techniques such as deep learning has risen to prominence due to its ability to learn from data, and in doing so, it has the capability to represent the world in a way that is more similar to how we perceive it.