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Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426

Lex Fridman · podcast · Watch on YouTube

Language & linguisticsLLMs & generative AINeuroscience & the brain

What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it for the argument that LLMs capture language form but not meaning, and for how the brain's language network works.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2024, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “I highly recommend listening to this Lex Friedman podcast episode”

    Covers complexities of modelling language in the human brain

    photon_lines, 2024-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs”

  2. “If you are interested in this topic, I suggest watching the conversation between Edward Gibson and Lex Fridman.”

    Explains brain language network that ignores code and gibberish

    hashemian, 2024-05 · Recommendation · in “To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)”

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Topics: language, syntax, llms, brain, edward gibson

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