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Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426
Lex Fridman interviews MIT psycholinguist Edward Gibson on human language, syntax, grammar and how large language models relate to them. The conversation runs nearly three hours.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN cites it for the argument that LLMs capture language form but not meaning, and for how the brain's language network works.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Lex Fridman
- Topic
- psycholinguistics
- Format
- podcast
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2024
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From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
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hashemian on Hacker News · 2024-05
In To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)
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