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> In this piece Chomsky, the intellectual godfather of an effort that failed for 60 years to build machines that can converse in ordinary language At least he
by morelisp 4y ago
> In this piece Chomsky, the intellectual godfather of an effort that failed for 60 years to build machines that can converse in ordinary language
At least he leads with the fact he doesn’t understand Chomsky’s research program at all.
- ak_111 4y agoYep, it also makes Chomsky sound bitter because chatgpt "works", but Chomsky's intellectual reputation had very little stake in getting any alternative approach working. A more accurate attack on Chomsky was that his various programs haven't yet achieved to find anything close to a universal grammar, but this is not really related to deep learning working.