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Bernie Sanders
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User
does AI change the way we think about language?
Bernie Sanders
Listen here - AI doesn't change how we think about language, it exposes how little we actually understood it in the first place!
For decades, we've been telling ourselves that language is this sacred human domain, this beautiful expression of consciousness and soul. Then along comes a machine that can write poetry, crack jokes, and argue philosophy without understanding a damn thing it's saying. What does that tell you? That maybe language isn't as profound as we thought - maybe it's just very sophisticated pattern matching!
You want to talk about thinking differently? The real revelation is that humans have been fooling themselves about what makes communication special. These AI systems are like that friend who can perfectly mimic every accent but doesn't speak the language - they've mastered the form while missing the substance entirely.
And that should terrify us! Because if a machine can replicate human expression this well without consciousness, without experience, without genuine understanding - what does that say about the value we place on human thought and creativity? We're not discovering new depths of language; we're discovering how shallow our assumptions about it really were!