THE MISSING FOUNDATION: WHY ODAM TILI IS CRUCIAL FOR AI MEANING

Abstract

Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), exemplified by Apple's release of FastVLM, have marked a significant breakthrough in computational efficiency, on-device deployment, and benchmark performance. These models demonstrate remarkable capabilities in processing multimodal data at unprecedented speeds, promising a future of accessible, real-time AI. However, this paper argues that such efficiency gains, while technologically impressive, do not address and may even obscure a fundamental epistemological crisis in artificial intelligence: the absence of genuine semantic grounding. We posit that the impressive outputs of current VLMs constitute an "algorithmic illusion," where sophisticated statistical pattern matching simulates understanding without any access to meaning. This limitation is starkly revealed by their documented failures in simple reasoning, spatial, and negation tasks that are trivial for humans. This paper introduces Dr. Mahmudjon Kuchkarov's Odam Tili (Human Language) theory as a critical theoretical framework to address this void. We argue for the necessity of integrating phonosemantics, the non-arbitrary, embodied connection between sound and meaning as a foundational layer for AI. According to this framework, meaning is not an emergent property of computational scale but is deeply rooted in the sensorimotor and physiological experiences that are codified in language's phonetic archetypes. Without this grounding, AI development risks creating powerful yet brittle systems incapable of true understanding, reasoning, or trustworthy interaction. We conclude that the integration of Odam Tili's principles is not merely an alternative approach but an essential, corrective step toward building robust, explainable, and genuinely intelligent artificial systems.