Gašper Beguš on Why Language Doesn’t Make Humans Special
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If language is just externalization algorithm, then animals and other species might have pretty complex lives. It's just we haven't figured out their window to their lives yet. I mean, in some cases we have, right? For Alex the parrot, we use our own language, we learned Alex the parrot our language, and then we were able to see, oh wow, it can count, it can do all sorts of these complex. operations and maybe for other species we just haven't found that window yet and the hope is that we find that window.
And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Well this was just one of the most fun and fascinating conversations I have had on the podcast in a very long time. I had Kashpa Begosh on, who is a professor of linguistics at Berkeley and we talked about all things at the intersection of language, animal communication, and artificial intelligence. We start by covering some of the basics.
What actually is language? Is there something specific, something unique about how humans use language? Why is he arguing? that in many ways the way we use language is not so different from apes, from parrots, from dogs, from birds, from whales than we might have thought. We go on to think about what that tells us about
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