Reading Quiz 1

Question or Hint Answer or Word

Which of the following topics would an animal struggle to communicate? hypothetical futures (wrong answers: desire to mate, location of food source, where a threat is)
Improving language AIs/LLMs most often requires human intervention of some kind True (wrong answers: False)
How could we test whether Kanzi really understands the importance of word order in English? use sentences where both orders are logical and possible, like "add the water to the juice" and "add the juice to the water (wrong answers: there's nothing else we could do, use different prepositions, like "put the onion in the basket" and "put the onion next to the basket")
What part of avian anatomy (likely) helps birds to mimic human speech? their descended syrinx (wrong answers: their beak shapes , their hollow bones)
What do LLM's rely on when 'learning' language? distributional probabilities (wrong answers: orthographic similarity, joint attention )