Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nl 2420 days ago
Language models actually do "understand" things in the sense that they make decent foundations for knowledge bases (not forgetting that this is NOT what they are designed to do).

See for example https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1250.pdf (released today) which shows that the BERT language model performs extremely competitively with specialised knowledge bases and LB construction methods.