Berkeley talk reframes language as an imagination-mimicry continuum spanning humans, animals, machines
begusgasper · x · 2026-09-23
Gasper Begus gave a talk at Berkeley's Science of Intelligence seminar on a new conceptualization of language: treating language as a continuum of "informative imagination / imitation" that relativizes human uniqueness and opens the way to studying animal and machine intelligence on the same theoretical footing. The recorded talk is available.
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