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BI 164 Gary Lupyan: How Language Affects Thought
Podcast |
Brain Inspired
Publisher |
Paul Middlebrooks
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Education
Natural Sciences
Science
Technology
Publication Date |
Apr 01, 2023
Episode Duration |
01:31:54

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Gary Lupyan runs the Lupyan Lab at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he studies how language and cognition are related. In some ways, this is a continuation of the conversation I had last episode with Ellie Pavlick, in that we  partly continue to discuss large language models. But Gary is more focused on how language, and naming things, categorizing things, changes our cognition related those things. How does naming something change our perception of it, and so on. He's interested in how concepts come about, how they map onto language. So we talk about some of his work and ideas related to those topics.

And we actually start the discussion with some of Gary's work related the variability of individual humans' phenomenal experience, and how that affects our individual cognition. For instance, some people are more visual thinkers, others are more verbal, and there seems to be an appreciable spectrum of differences that Gary is beginning to experimentally test.

0:00 - Intro 2:36 - Words and communication 14:10 - Phenomenal variability 26:24 - Co-operating minds 38:11 - Large language models 40:40 - Neuro-symbolic AI, scale 44:43 - How LLMs have changed Gary's thoughts about language 49:26 - Meaning, grounding, and language 54:26 - Development of language 58:53 - Symbols and emergence 1:03:20 - Language evolution in the LLM era 1:08:05 - Concepts 1:11:17 - How special is language? 1:18:08 - AGI

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