Three reasons why AI doesn’t model human language

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  1. Johan J. Bolhuis
    1. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

  2. Stephen Crain
    1. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

  3. Sandiway Fong
    1. The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

  4. Andrea Moro
    1. University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS), Pavia, Italy.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to develop large language models (LLMs) with considerable success. But they should not be seen as being models of how human language works and is acquired.

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Nature 627, 489 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00824-z

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