Why machines do not understand: A response to Søgaard

Jobst Landgrebe, Barry Smith
7/7/2023
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Some defenders of so-called `artificial intelligence' believe that machines can understand language. In particular, Søgaard has argued in this journal for a thesis of this sort, on the basis of the idea (1) that where there is semantics there is also understanding and (2) that machines are not only capable of what he calls `inferential semantics', but even that they can (with the help of inputs from sensors) `learn' referential semantics \parencite{sogaard:2022}. We show that he goes wrong because he pays insufficient attention to the difference between language as used by humans and the sequences of inert of symbols which arise when language is stored on hard drives or in books in libraries.

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@article{landgrebe2023machines,
  title  = {Why machines do not understand: A response to Søgaard},
  author = {Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith},
  year   = {2023},
  eprint = {2307.04766},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04766v1}
}

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