Publication: Pragmatic norms are all you need – why the symbol grounding problem does not apply to LLMs
Pragmatic norms are all you need – why the symbol grounding problem does not apply to LLMs
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Gubelmann, R. (2024). Pragmatic norms are all you need – why the symbol grounding problem does not apply to LLMs. 11663–11678. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.651
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Do LLMs fall prey to Harnad’s symbol grounding problem (SGP), as it has recently been claimed? We argue that this is not the case. Starting out with countering the arguments of Bender and Koller (2020), we trace the origins of the SGP to the computational theory of mind (CTM), and we show that it only arises with natural language when questionable theories of meaning are presupposed. We conclude by showing that it would apply to LLMs only if they were interpreted in the manner of how the CTM conceives the mind, i.e., by postulating th
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- Gubelmann, Reto
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Gubelmann, R. (2024). Pragmatic norms are all you need – why the symbol grounding problem does not apply to LLMs. 11663–11678. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.651
