A Sentence is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Can Large Language Models Understand Hum4n L4ngu4ge and the W0rld behind W0rds?

Understand

Modern Artificial Intelligence applications show great potential for language-related tasks that rely on next-word prediction.

• The current generation of Large Language Models (LLMs) have been linked to claims about human-like linguistic performance and their applications are hailed both as a step towards artificial general intelligence and as a major advance in understanding the cognitive, and even neural basis of human language.
• To assess these claims, first we analyze the contribution of LLMs as theoretically informative representations of a target cognitive system vs.
• atheoretical mechanistic tools.