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I don't know anything about AI or machine learning, but your comment reminded me of this: http://norvig.com/chomsky.html http://norvig.com/chomsky.html HN dis
by nhebb 10y ago
I don't know anything about AI or machine learning, but your comment reminded me of this:
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
HN discussion of related article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4290604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4290604
- dilemma 10y agoThat essay misses the point its trying to refute. It references Chomsky talking about the nature of language and by extension the human mind. It then turns to talking about how search engines work, which is an unrelated topic.
- mcguire 10y agoOn the other hand, if your idea of "the nature of language" doesn't include how listeners understand a statement then you are probably not thinking about the nature of language.
- dilemma 10y agoHuman minds are not search engines. They do not run code.
- Isamu 10y agoNorvig's essay references Chomsky literally talking about "trying to apply statistical models to various linguistic problems", which is surely what today's search engines do.
- dilemma 10y agoIt does, but the fact that search engines use statistical models has no overlap with how human language faculties work.