Summary of “understanding Ai”: Semantic Grounding in Large Language Models, by Holger Lyre

Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

“Understanding AI”: Semantic Grounding in Large Language Models

by Holger Lyre

First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Feb 2024

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Medium	GrooveSquid.com (original content)	Medium Difficulty Summary This paper investigates whether Large Language Models (LLMs) truly comprehend the meaning of the texts they generate. The authors examine five methodological approaches to assess LLMs’ semantic grounding. They find that LLMs exhibit basic evidence of functional, social, and causal grounding, suggesting that these models develop world models and understand language in an elementary sense.
Low	GrooveSquid.com (original content)	Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about how well AI machines can understand what they are saying. Do they really get the meaning? The researchers looked at five different ways to figure this out. They found that these language-generating machines have a basic understanding of their own language, which means they’re not just randomly generating words.