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See also: On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by Peter Norvig: http://norvig.com/chomsky.html http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
by stared 10y ago
See also: On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by Peter Norvig: http://norvig.com/chomsky.html http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
- lngnmn 10y agoThis basically postulates that language learned is a process similar to a supervised machine learning algorithms, and this, perhaps, is a more realistic view that Chomsky has. The machinery has been evolved, but "the training data" is required to make it work.
- ubernostrum 10y agoBe careful of the trap: for quite a while now, each generation has simply treated it as "realistic" to match the brain's workings to that generation's popular new computational technique.
- neutralid 10y agoWhat's interesting is that Google's Translate, via neural network training, seems to have found an efficient structure underlying many languages: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114748-google-translate-ai-invents-its-own-language-to-translate-with/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114748-google-translat...