English and the Four Pieces Limit
English As The Language Of AI AS a natural language, English has both breadth and depth. You can talk about the psychology of humans, the aurora, the latest on quantum entanglement, what time the bus comes. It is a very powerful all-purpose language. It does have drawbacks – the use of a word for many different meanings. A word can mean a noun or a verb (thousands of them), or an adverb or a preposition (the car turned on a dime, he turned on the light). In comparison: LLM (Large Language Model) This approach knows nothing about what words mean. You can set up a prompt, and it will return a piece of text from the internet or other pre-processed source by matching word patterns. LLMs do not create objects to represent the words in the text, give them attributes, and then manipulate them, or reason about them. It has a very narrow area of application – it is not suitable for autonomous cars or simulation, such as having a working model of a piece of complex text. LLMs are ef...
