A.I umwelt (aka: sensory) deficits and road to meaning
- sciart0
- Mar 15
- 1 min read
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Current text-based LLMs lack sensory experiences and iconic representations, potentially limiting their ability to ground language in real-world meaning.
Meaning can be acquired through word associations and sensory experiences, but while humans benefit from both, LLMs are limited to the linguistic route.
In his book These Strange Minds, Summerfield hypothesizes that the development of AIs that can process images and videos may bring AI cognition closer to human-like understanding.