Can a language model (like GPT-3) learn meaning? But really?

What is meaning? How far is state-of-the art NLP from meaning? Do publications misuse the word “meaning”?
"Climbing towards NLU" paper explained.

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📺 Transformer combining Vision and Language: https://youtu.be/dd7nE4nbxN0
📺 GPT-3 video: https://youtu.be/5fqxPOaaqi0
📺 BERTology meets Biology: https://youtu.be/pFf4PltQ9LY

Outline:
* 00:00 500 subs celebration!
* 00:53 Breathing pause
* 02:12 Misuse of “meaning”
* 04:22 What is meaning?
* 06:39 Language models and meaning
* 08:20 Octopus experiment
* 11:09 What to do?

📄 Paper explained: Bender, Emily M., and Alexander Koller. "Climbing towards NLU: On meaning, form, and understanding in the age of data." In Proc. of ACL. 2020. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.463/

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