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Language Provides More Grounding Than Expected

Large models exhibit surprising grounding despite not experiencing the world multimodally, plausibly because RLHF feedback comes from grounded human raters who transmit grounding, and because language may contain more grounding than linguists previously thought—raising philosophical questions not yet scratched.

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Speaker

Demis Hassabis

Evidence Quote

maybe language contains more grounding than linguists thought before.

Source

Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFoldDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:35:13 AM

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