…Still there’s been a gear change. So how does AI mimic understanding? Is it reinforcement learning? the chain of thought approach? Just size matters? What is understanding? And what next? human value's expiration date?... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ed... #AI #metalinguistics #aaargh 😱

As chatbots get smarter, humans' unique language abilities are becoming less special - Berkeley News UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and cognition no other animal has displayed.

New UC Berkeley reveals for the first time that AI chatbots can now analyze sentences like a trained linguist news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/14/a... #AI #AIChatBots #LanguageMatters #NoamChomsky #Recursion #Metalinguistics with @metafrasis.bsky.social @filosia.bsky.social @vickyloras.bsky.social

The suspicion confirmed: J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong’s 1923 linguistic fieldwork in St. Thomas and St. John on Virgin Islands Dutch Creole | Scandinavian Studies in Language

Mijn recente artikel over De Josselin de Jongs taalkundig veldwerk op de US Virgin Islands in 1922-1923. tidsskrift.dk/sss/article/... #dutchcreole #metalinguistics