Large language models have learned to use language

Gary Lupyan
12/13/2025
cs.CL

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Acknowledging that large language models have learned to use language can open doors to breakthrough language science. Achieving these breakthroughs may require abandoning some long-held ideas about how language knowledge is evaluated and reckoning with the difficult fact that we have entered a post-Turing test era.

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@article{lupyan2025large,
  title  = {Large language models have learned to use language},
  author = {Gary Lupyan},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2512.12447},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12447v1}
}

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