[HN Gopher] Harnad: The Symbol Grounding Problem (1990) [pdf]
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       Harnad: The Symbol Grounding Problem (1990) [pdf]
        
       Author : rfreytag
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-09-15 14:43 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | aaroninsf wrote:
       | TL;DR you ground symbols by connecting them to non-linguistic
       | features in your network. In specific, to the sensorium; but
       | also: to utility.
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       | Things have names, but things _are_ what we perceive about them
       | and largely about what we can and do, do with them.
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       | This is what any agent embodied in an environment must do and do
       | do.
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       | Many of the criticisms about LLM will evaporate for multi-modal
       | models, as they become multimodal, and gain (or infer from)
       | agency.
        
       | dvh wrote:
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