My Language - My AI
Remember watching Arrival? – a linguist tasked with communicating with aliens learns their language lets her perceive time non-linearly, reshaping her understanding of reality. The plot brought the Sapir-Whorf’s hypothesis back into mainstream about how language actively shapes the way we think and determines what we can think about. In the context of LLMs and Chain of Thought (CoT) reasoning, the hypothesis becomes particularly relevant since the language of thought quite literally determines the quality of computational output....