Semantic AI and LLMs
Why do people seem to think that the meaning of words is unnecessary for an LLM to understand English text. Is it because many people have no understanding of the work involved in parsing text and imagine that if they don't have to consciously think about it then an LLM doesn't have to think about it either. A simple example – the word “bar” as a noun (deciding whether a word is acting as a noun or a verb can be tricky – this word can also be a preposition). An iron bar, a wine bar, a colour bar, a bar to entry, a unit of pressure, a measure of music, the legal profession. The path between speaker and listener English, even with a 50,000 word vocabulary and about 10,000 wordgroups (combinations of words that have a different meaning to the apparent meaning of the individual words), is still a shorthand for describing the mental world. Isn't Semantic AI just words? No, it manages the meanings of words. For nouns, there are several flavours: Simple...
