Language understanding requires internal modeling of space-time, emerges earlier
RexDouglass · x · 2026-08-20
A new preprint suggests that understanding language requires internally modeling "what's happening where," even when unstated.
The researchers built a new task to measure this ability in both language models and people, finding that it emerges at model scales far smaller than previously thought.
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