Elan Barenholtz

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2,007 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard Jun 2025

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Right.

They they're very often are not they're not uh distinct to s they they they can they can actually be a little more rich than than a single word.

And so it was only with writing that maybe people really started to become aware that we have these these things called words.

Um, and now it's only with large language models that we really understand.

What words are?

Uh, which are these, you know, I say they say these relational abstractions.

I don't know, well, you know, symbols is is just another word.

I don't know if that even captures it fully.

But what's wild about it is that the brain was doing exactly this.

And knew ex and the brain was tokenizing these these sounds and was using the mapping between them in order to to produce language.

probably long, long, long before anybody ever sort of self consciously

had a conception that there's such a thing as a word.

And so uh

That just b blows my mind.

Um it it speaks to what uh I think is

A very deep mystery, a very deep mystery.

Where the hell did language come from?

Here's what didn't happen.

There was not a

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