There is no way an AI can understand a toddler in the way the...
R.Сам 🦋🐏@Logo_Daedalus
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Mar 22, 2025
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There is no way an AI can understand a toddler in the way the parent of a toddler can understand them— because an AI can only discern the most abstract & universal representation of language, & not its most particular & contingent form (also why it can never understand poetry without someone other input being “the explanation of the poem”)
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This fundamental irony— that the most basic form of language is “not-yet-language” but “language-seeming” & a creative play with the rudiments of language— poetry is the mother tongue of the human race.
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The AI speech interpreter would not understand “puwol” as “puddle”— why would it? There is no exhaustive ruleset to explain the exact way a word is “sort of sounding like”— “waya” is that “why(ya)” or “water”?
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& I know the difference, intimately, between “good bibbie” & “bad bibbie”— but the only way to teach someone else this category distinction a toddler made up is to literally point to two objects & say “good bibbie” - “bad bibbie”
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Why? Because she said so. Simple as.