Dear Reader,
During the Summer Vacation we will just publish selected Newsletters every Friday and resume the alternative Essay/Newsletter publication with the next Essay to be published on August 26, 2022.
The human brain is hardwired to infer intentions behind words. Every time you engage in conversation, your mind automatically constructs a mental model of your conversation partner. You then use the words to fill in the model with that person’s goals, feelings and beliefs..
What researchers have determined is that you cannot simply trust a language model when it tells you how it feels. Words can be misleading, and it is all too easy to mistake fluent speech for fluent thought.
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