Jake BrowningJan 195 minWhy isn't Multimodality Making Language Models Smarter?Philosophy has something called the "symbol grounding" problem. The basic question is whether the words and sentences of language need to...
Jake BrowningOct 29, 202311 minMusings on the Language of Thought HypothesisJake Quilty-Dunn, Nicolas Porot, and Eric Mandelbaum recently published a robust defense of the Language of Thought Hypothesis (LoTH)....
Jake BrowningJul 7, 202310 minWhat is at stake in contemporary debates about innatenessIt is often hard to figure out what, if anything, is at stake in these discussions of innateness. All the nativists are big on learning...