In the Paris example, if the researchers were testing proper responses based on syntax, why did they posit that "France" is the correct response to "Can you tell me where to find Paris?"? The correct ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The list -- intended for fiction writers but good for many of us -- is ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

Emphases mine to make a point. "This suggests models absorb both meaning and syntactic patterns, but can overrely...." No, LLMs do not "absorb meaning," or anything like meaning. Meaning implies ...