Monday, February 16, 2026

We don't know natural language yet. Qualia Journal

Elon Musk predicts that we will not need natural language any more due to advancements in artificial intelligence and interfaces such as neuralink.


That may well come to pass, as anything predicted by the genius entrepreneur. However, for the time being, it appears that natural language has gained more power because of LLMs.


The general idea used to be that natural languages were inferior to mathematical languages, because they are soft and ambiguous. However, LLMs, based on next token prediction, have shown how powerful natural languages are in terms of establishing concepts and world models.


In a sense, natural languages might be superior to mathematical language.


Interestingly, we do not know exactly why this is the case.


We don't know natural language yet.




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