Elan Barenholtz

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Elan Barenholtz: Language Is an Autonomous Organism, Not a Tool · 13 Jun 2025 podcast

Okay, so you've got these uh you kinda distinct s brain states which in some ways uh I again this is philosophically fraught, but in some ways represent

Facts about the world, perhaps, but I don't really want to go that far.

But you've got these brain states that need to talk to each other so that they can coordinate.

And that is sort of the the key fundamental problem um that our organism has to solve.

And it's not just like of course you're not born having the linguistic uh you're not just you're not born having the the the linguistic um uh uh mapping all solved.

Uh you have to learn that.

But you are born into a world where it's already been solved, meaning

We've got these corpus corpus of language, the thing that the large language models were trained on.

That pre existed the models, just as when a baby's born, the English language preexists the baby.

You can learn the mappings, and I believe you do.

You can learn the the the the embedding space of language without the other stuff, right?

That's again, that's sort of the key insight for large language models.

So that already contained within the linguistic system that we've honed over however many years uh it took for ev for to for humans to develop language, we've honed a system that has this utility built in.

such that it's a good thing to dump into that latent space so that when a baby hears the word ball, sees this object that's a ball, gets Sure, sure.

Gets that mapping.

But again the word ball

is really meaningful o is it really has its own role in relation to other words.

But you are over the course of development, you also learn this kind of I what I think is maybe bridge a a latent space bridge or some other bridge between these.

And so in the end, you end up being able to tell somebody, go pick up that ball.

And of course, they're able to go and do it.

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