> The undoing of Skinner's grip on psychology is commonly marked by Chomsky's 1959 critical review of Skinner's book Verbal Behavior, a book in which Skinner at

> The undoing of Skinner's grip on psychology is commonly marked by Chomsky's 1959 critical review of Skinner's book Verbal Behavior, a book in which Skinner attempted to explain linguistic ability using behaviorist principles. This article is from 2012. In the 10 years since, we've shown that reward maximization can lead to unexpectedly good language models (GPT etc). I'm not familiar with Skinner or Chomsky's arguments mentioned here, but it would be interesting to see how they hold up now.