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3) Language as operating system for thinking: even in the absence of other agents or an environment to effect, people use language to crystalize & structure their thoughts. Perhaps the most interesting function of language. Requires a way of generating pre-language "thoughts".
There are a few more as well. I think a system can be said to be capable of "language understanding" if it can use language to perform at least one of these functions, preferably all three. Naturally, all of these require strong forms of external grounding.
"The limits of my language are the limits of my world"?
Many things surprise me about language, one in particular is the ability to construct absolutely abstract concepts. Even more surprising that other can understand it even in other language (after translation, of course)
I think this is partly because our world models are normally very aligned. The labels we attach to the models can vary.
Hey Quantum, the thread from @fchollet is compiled now. You can read it here:https://threader.app/thread/1201907276476346369 …
The proper GI architecture forms a world model full of general representations of whatever it has observed. These representations are perfect for attaching labels to. The general nature of our representations is absolutely key to the adoption of any language.
Language when sufficiently developed to usefully represent other qualities in data models, becomes a synthetic type of sensor that can be used to increase the efficiency of a multi sensory system to identify and isolate relevant data and integrate data with other existing models.
Wow. Fantastic set of tweets on language. Language is core to experience design - audible, visual, physical, emotional.
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