Can Large Language Models Understand Meaning? Nietzsche, Bilingual Thought, and Linguistic Form

A word can confuse one person and inform another. The difference is not simply the sound or glyph on a page, but what each person takes them to mean. A large language model (LLM) is trained on large amounts of text to predict likely sequences of words. Because it learns from patterns in linguistic…

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