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84 - Chris Potts: Semantics, Pragmatics, and ChatGPT

84 - Chris Potts: Semantics, Pragmatics, and ChatGPT

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Chris Potts is Professor and Chair of the Department of
Linguistics at Stanford University, and also Professor by
courtesy in the Department of Computer Science at the same. Chris
has worked on a wide variety of topics in linguistics throughout
his career, but has published on conventional implicature—check
out his book, Logic of Conventional Implicatures (Oxford,
2003)—large language models, and compositional reasoning, among
many other subjects. Robinson and Chris begin by discussing the
relationship between linguistics and philosophy before turning to
topics in semantics and pragmatics—references, the principle of
compositionality, swearing, and more. After some thoughts on
Chomsky’s legacy in linguistics, they talk about the impact of
ChatGPT on the classroom and whether large language models are
capable of understanding.

00:00 In This Episode…

01:13 Introduction

04:16 Chris and Linguistics

12:34 Linguistics and Philosophy

22:43 Proper Names and Reference

27:00 The Principle of Compositionality

41:59 Adjectives, Innateness, and Chomsky

57:36 Quantifiers

01:01:36 Swearing and Linguistics

01:04:42 ChatGPT in the Linguistics Classroom

01:12:00 Does ChatGPT Understand?

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
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