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Audio Edition: Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.

New research shows that LLMs, like humans, prefer to learn some linguistic patterns over others.

The Quanta Podcast

May 22, 202518m 44s

Show Notes

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn.

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