Yes! This is a brilliant explanation of why language use is not the same as intelligence, and why LLMs like chatGPT are not intelligence. At all.

  • 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    That’s awful. I don’t know why sign language isn’t made into an official state language that everyone has to learn some basic amount of proficiency

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      1 year ago

      Amen! And it would benefit literally everybody. You can communicate across a room or in loud environments. It’s so useful!

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          1 year ago

          i bet these bastards would somehow learn to interpret the changes in air pressure you’d create when signing… that’s how you create supervillain.

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          This gets me wondering: In sign languages, are there different words for “hearing” (i.e. looking someone sign to you) vs “seeing” (i.e. looking at something that isn’t signing?