Does Artificial Intelligence Speak Our Language?: A Gadamerian Assessment of Generative Language Models.
The language argument is a classic argument for human distinctiveness that, for millenia, has been used to distinguish humans from non-human animals. Generative language models (GLMs) pose a challenge to traditional language-based models of human distinctiveness precisely because they can communicat...
| Publicado en: | Political Research Quarterly Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 713 - 729 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2024
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