Machine Learning

Chomsky mod ChatGPT-4: Kan AI lære Nahuatl?

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I de forgangne ugers tid er folk i medierne (både de social-digitale og de traditionelle) begyndt at diskutere Chomskys sprogteori. Det hører til sjældenhederne at sprogteori bliver nyhedsværdigt, så jeg har fulgt med. Konteksten er OpenAIs nye AI model, en chatbot baseret på en såkaldt Large Language Model (LLM) som virkelig er meget dygtig til at forstå sprogligt input og producere meningsfuldt og relevant sprogligt output. Den hedder ChatGPT-4 og den er så dygtig at den kan skrive små historier om emner der aldrig før er nogen der har skrevet om, og den kan lave limericks der rimer rigtigt og har den rigtige rytme, den kan programmere små programmer ud fra verbalt input og svare fornuftigt på spørgsmål om alt … ↪

Let’s talk about alcohol

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“I drink to make other people more interesting”

– Ernest Hemingway

The Short-Term Effect of Alcohol on Speech Production 

The Danish drinking culture is an ongoing topic for discussion. Violence, fights and bad judgements all seem to be more prominent when alcohol is involved, as alcohol often influences people’s communicative skills in an alarming way. In social scenes, alcohol is considered a liquid courage as words appear to slip more easily over one’s tongue after a drink or two.

These tendencies are depicted in the prize-winning Danish movie “Druk” which became famous for suggesting that humans presumably were their ideal selves when intoxicated with Breath Alcohol Concentration levels of 0.5‰. The movie suggests that creativity and overall social features of … ↪