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David McWilliams

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
419 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

It really does.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

That's really funny.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

It's a good joke.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

Okay, so is English the most efficient language for AI?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

English is considered one of the most information-dense languages, meaning it conveys a lot of meaning with fewer syllables.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

But it says it is not definitively the most efficient as efficiency can be measured differently.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

Studies show it has a higher information rate, meaning per syllable.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

I mean, that's just in general.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

So for AI, yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

But languages like Spanish and French compensate with faster speech rates, balancing out overall information delivery, making them comparably efficient in terms of overall speed and communication verbally, obviously.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

I know because I think what they were doing was keeping our speed.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

Right, exactly.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

I know.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

But also, if a Spanish person was saying it, they would be saying it so much faster.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

These are two separate things.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

But yeah, it's weird.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

Oh, and then I was looking up syllables for languages.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

Languages with very few syllables often have simple structures.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

Rotakos, Papua New Guinea.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David McWilliams (on the history of money)

having one of the smallest inventories, around 50 possible syllables due to few consonants and vowels.