This chapter explores the debate surrounding AI's ability to learn languages. It examines whether AI models truly learn or simply mimic human language, highlighting the contrasting views of experts and the implications for linguistic theories.
AI language models initially disregarded decades of linguistics research.
Debate exists on whether AI models genuinely learn language or just mimic it.
A key paper challenges the idea that AI can learn any language equally well.
Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn.