{"id":446,"date":"2026-02-28T22:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2026-02-28T22:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:21:19","slug":"we-studied-chatbots-and-language-and-saw-a-huge-problem-they-mean-80-when-they-say-likely-but-humans-hear-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"We studied chatbots and language and saw a huge problem: They mean 80% when they say &#8216;likely&#8217; but humans hear 65%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/02\/25\/what-do-chatbots-mean-likely-probable-contextual-learning-humans\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"We studied chatbots and language and saw a huge problem: They mean 80% when they say &#039;likely&#039; but humans hear 65% | Fortune\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-1752166763-e1771975120372.jpg?resize=1200,600\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">fortune.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">We studied chatbots and language and saw a huge problem: They mean 80% when they say &#8216;likely&#8217; but humans hear 65% | Fortune<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">This could be because humans can interpret words such as \u201clikely\u201d and \u201cprobable\u201d based more on contextual cues and personal experiences.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciber","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}