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The speaker says AI models’ capabilities offer some support 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”22:55Report a misattribution
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