causal
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.
causalpending
Speaker
Demis HassabisEvidence Quote
“maybe language contains more grounding than linguists thought before.”
Source
Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold— Dwarkesh Patel PodcastCreated: 6/13/2026, 3:35:13 AM
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