# Witgenstein's influence on artificial intelligence

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01570 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.01570/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 9 of its 33 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 3 Feb 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 9 of 9)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1310.4546/) (2013)
- [Deep contextualized word representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.05365/) (2018)
- [node2vec: Scalable Feature Learning for Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.00653/) (2016)
- [World Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.10122/) (2018)
- [Context Encoders: Feature Learning by Inpainting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1604.07379/) (2016)
- [Experience Grounds Language](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.10151/) (2020)
- [The Effects of Data Size and Frequency Range on Distributional Semantic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.08293/) (2016)
- [Language in a (Search) Box: Grounding Language Learning in Real-World Human-Machine Interaction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.08874/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Data Evolution by Wittgenstein's Rule Following](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.22674/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We examine how much of the contemporary progress in artificial intelligence (and, specifically, in natural language processing), can be, more or less directly, traced back to the seminal work and ideas of the Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, with particular focus on his late views. Discussing Wittgenstein's original theses will give us the chance to survey the state of artificial intelligence, and comment on both its strengths and weaknesses. A similar text appeared first in Spanish as a chapter of CENTENARIO DEL SILENCIO (2021), a book celebrating 100 years since the publication of the Tractatus.