“We would suggest that all the attention that has been placed on predicting sequences of words has come at the expense of developing a theory of how such processes might culminate in cognitive models of the world.”
Our reading:
The authors suggest that all the attention placed on predicting sequences of words has come at the expense of developing a theory of how such processes might culminate in cognitive models of the world.
Assessment: Can’t be checked
What happened
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
An opinion, a recommendation, or too vague to test. Listed, not scored.
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Why
“We would suggest” presents a tentative causal explanation. Scoring it as an established claim of research displacement would strengthen the authors’ commitment. The requested exclusion for hedged language applies.
Caveats
- This decision does not establish whether word-prediction research displaced research on cognitive models.
Evidence (0 items)
Claims like this aren’t scored, so there is no evidence to show.
How we judged it
- Kind of claim
- Causal claim
- Deadline
- None given. We don’t add one.
Conditions
- we would suggest (their words)
Where we had to interpret
- The authors offer a tentative causal explanation. Under the requested exclusion for hedged language, this is not converted into a firm assertion that one research program displaced another.
- The wording concerns research through the post date, 2022-06-22. It supplies neither a quantified displacement nor a comparison against an alternative research history.
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Source and dates
Marcus on AI, Three ideas from linguistics that everyone in AI should know, paragraph 33.
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We read this wording on 2026-10-29. The post may have been edited after 2022-06-22.
Where it was said (1)
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: Marcus on AI, Three ideas from linguistics that everyone in AI should know
We would suggest that all the attention that has been placed on predicting sequences of words has come at the expense of developing a theory of how such processes might culminate in cognitive models of the world.
- Where
- paragraph 33
- Published
- 2022-06-22
- We read it
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
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A reviewer said our test wasn’t fair to what was actually said.