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Marietta Kesting Large Language Models, Parrots, and Children: Modelling Speech, Text, and Learning Processes
This essay discusses some aspects of large language models (LLMs) in 2023 that model human speech and text. Analogies between modelling language in current AI applications and learning processes in children appear in discussions of human versus machine intelligence and creativity. The anthropomorphizing perspective employed in these debates is the legacy of the ‘Turing Test’, but also the notion that animals, formerly colonized people, and machines supposedly only imitate ‘correct’ language.
2025. large language models (LLMs); speech; learning; children; artificial intelligence (AI); creativity; parroting