Do language models lack communicative intentions?

In some recent work, some psychologists, linguists, AI researchers, and philosophers (e.g., Shanahan, 2022; Bender & Koller, 2020; Montemayor, 2021; Bender et al., 2021) have argued that, despite producing convincing human-like linguistic output, large language models do not possess linguistic compe...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 205; no. 5; pp. 1 - 24
Main Author: Attah, Nuhu Osman
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature May2025
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost