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It's interesting to think that connectionist theories of language are literally shipping on Google Translate and people still argue about Chomsky. Many of the c
by curuinor 10y ago
It's interesting to think that connectionist theories of language are literally shipping on Google Translate and people still argue about Chomsky. Many of the cognitive scientists were poking about with neural nets too - and they were getting into huge arguments with Chomsky and like folks since the 80's.
- pekk 10y agoTo be fair, due to the nature of neural networks, there are a great number of domains where they can be applied in some way without that fact actually explaining anything about how the domain works. For example, TD-Gammon plays a mean game of Backgammon, but this does not mean that Backgammon reduces to connectionism. TD-Gammon applies neural networks in a specific way with other algorithms involved, and then there are still underlying facts about what it takes to win at Backgammon which do not necessarily mandate anything that resembles connectionism.