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Current NLP is bad. Still useful (Google search increasingly feels like it is doing NLP to change what I asked for into what it thinks I meant) but bad. A hypothetical future “perfect” NLP can demonstrate any skill that a human could learn by reading, and computers can read so much more than any given human.

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Is reading enough to understand the real world without direct experience of the real world? Is there any research that tries to answer this question?

Is there any research that tries to answer this question?

That's the whole point of the experiment called GPT-3.

As of about ten years ago when I received my degree in linguistics, I understood there were two schools on this issue:

A: Of course not, let's do something else. B: What? You put text in the maths and stuff comes out.

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