generalizability

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English generalizable Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English generalizability From generalizable + -ity.

1. The quality of being generalizable.

   “As we all are probably now familiar, these [large language] models can generate novel perfectly formed English text, using any construction that you can think of, generalizing in seemingly just the way that humans do[…]. Piantadosi (2024) provides some nice examples of the generalizability of such models, asking one to provide a story of how an ant might sink a battleship.”