Language models have semantics and understanding, as evidenced by their ability to solve problems requiring understanding of concepts like paint fading and temporal reasoning (the room-painting problem), though they lack grounding in physical reality; multimodal systems trained with robotic perception can be grounded

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Speaker

Geoffrey Hinton

Evidence Quote

I find it very hard to believe that they don't have semantics when they consult problems...it understood the meaning it got it

Source

Possible End of Humanity from AI? Geoffrey Hinton at MIT Technology Review's EmTech DigitalJoseph Raczynski
Created: 8/10/2026, 10:48:51 PM

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