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We actually are carving up living human brains to see how language works. See Eddie Chang’s work at UCSF.

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Gary: Like you, I have a great deal of respect for the scientific method. I often describe myself as a data slave, and so appreciate the point of view that you put forward in this post. I am not an expert on language, but I am wondering what you make of this recent paper which seems to "suggest that autoregressive deep language models provide a new and biologically feasible computational framework for studying the neural basis of language". Goldstein, A. et al. Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models. Nat Neurosci 25, 369–380 (2022).

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