Another happenstance connection of links after the previous one on vast numbers. I read this article on the Large Language Mistake of LLMs, in which the author, Benjamin Riley, posits that language does not engender intelligence; and then the essay from Luciano Floridi On Saussure and Heidegger about language, in which he compares Ferdinand de Saussure’s conclusion that no language has closer access to reality than any other, in direct contrast to the wishful thinking of Heidegger that German is the ultimate discoverer of reality.
Basically, then, LLMs reflect neither intelligence nor reality…
