[Ads-l] "Thinkish" and "Neuralese" (with an aside about Llanito)

[Nancy Friedman]

Two ways to describe AI writing:

https://nickandresen.substack.com/p/how-ai-is-learning-to-think-in-secret

"Thinkish is compressed and strange, but it’s still language that you
could, in principle, parse with enough effort. Neuralese isn’t a language
at all. The reasoning happens in continuous internal latent states, in
thinking-that-is-never-words. You can’t read Neuralese. You can only watch
what goes in and what comes out."

(Llanito: A variety of Andalusian Spanish that incorporates English words;
spoken in the British territory of Gibraltar.)

Via Language Hat: https://languagehat.com/on-thinkish/

Nancy Friedman
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