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AI models use syntactic processing different from humans and arguably better in some respects; this appears to provide some validation for the functionalist hypothesis.
Tim Scarfe · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“all the time there you know even though they do a different type of syntactic processing than we do arguably it's in some ways better than than we do so something is is is kind of validating their functionalist hypothesis”Play from 22:55Report a misattribution
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