Inside the language of AI: If machines only predict words, how can their language feel meaningful and what limits remain for artificial intelligence?
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Emma Borg is a Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Before taking up this post, she was a Professor at the University of Reading (where she also served as Head of Department and Director of the Centre for Cognition Research). Emma’s main research interests are philosophy of language (where she defends ‘minimal semantics’), philosophy of mind, and business ethics . She has published widely in these areas, including three monographs with OUP (two translated into Chinese) and has held numerous grants, including a Leverhulme Trust Major Fellowship.

Emma Borg is a Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Before taking up this post, she was a Professor at the University of Reading (where she also served as Head of Department and Director of the Centre for Cognition Research). Emma’s main research interests are philosophy of language (where she defends ‘minimal semantics’), philosophy of mind, and business ethics . She has published widely in these areas, including three monographs with OUP (two translated into Chinese) and has held numerous grants, including a Leverhulme Trust Major Fellowship.
Inside the language of AI: If machines only predict words, how can their language feel meaningful and what limits remain for artificial intelligence?