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by pringk02 720 days ago
While this is kind of interesting, it just looks like it's a long way round to recreate Corpus Linguistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_linguistics
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It seems to ignore a couple of millenia of linguistics.
Linguistics isn't thought. I believe the author is specifically talking about a latent representation of conversation.
From text. That connection has been investigated for a long time.

Although I must admit, it isn't entirely clear what the author is talking about. It's a bit like thoughts that appear when one is somewhat intoxicated. But extracting a mathematical model from linguistic utterances is very much what linguistics is about (and hasn't been able to achieve). Perhaps rotating the representational space of an LLM suits his/her fancy.