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AI And The Limits Of Language
An essay arguing that a system trainedAI model — The program that results from training an AI on vast numbers of examples until it learns to produce similar output. “Frontier models” are the most advanced ones of the moment. on language alone can only reach shallow understanding.
Browning, Jacob, and Yann LeCun. "AI And The Limits Of Language." Noema Magazine, August 23, 2022.
Article · Noema Magazine · 2022 · Accessed September 17, 2026
Interpretation
The page's metadata lists only Browning; the byline and author notes name both authors. The essay opens against the early Wittgenstein of the Tractatus, not the later one cited elsewhere on this site.
Provenance
is the origin of
- Language is too thin a channel for understandingPosition
The quoted passage and the argument around it (paragraph 7).
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- Jacob BrowningPerson
Jacob Browning is an author of the piece.
- Yann LeCunPerson
Yann LeCun is an author of the piece.