Language Arts & Disciplines

Author: Susumu KunoPublisher: MIT PressPublished: 04/15/1973Pages: 410Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.86dISBN: 9780262519281Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorSusumu Kuno is Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University.

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A critical exegesis of large language models, like ChatGPT, and recent advances in artificial intelligence. If speech has long been an emblem of the human species, then talking machines seem to be harbingers of some kind of technological singularity. Indeed, if the brilliance--or at...

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