Researcher argues AI labs ignore philosophy of language: LLMs relate to data, not the physical world
gerardsans · x · 2026-09-16
gerardsans argues AI labs don't grasp the philosophy of language underlying modern transformers and their judgment can't be trusted. His core claim: LLMs have no relationship to the physical world, only to training data; physical grounding comes only from the reader. He says linguistics resolved this decades ago but the AI industry keeps ignoring it.
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