Our work on metalinguistic abilities of LLMs in Quanta magazine today. This study enabled another line of work—the ConlangCrafter.

The recursion island!

🎃 LLMs can do linguistics 👻

Pooetryman oso Quanta Magazine There is no good definition of language. My hypothesis definition: informative imitation.

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities? 👇 quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-ai-…

Recursion, the linguistic ability to embed phrases within phrases, is perhaps the defining characteristic of the human mind. It also shows up in nature. quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-ai-…

What distinguishes humanity? The answer has often come back to our language abilities. But some linguists think that eventually, AI will demonstrate an understanding of language that’s better than our own. quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-ai-…