It’s a valid criticism. What today’s “language” models do is that they have been able to scale up the implementation of the Mechanical Turk problem. They have

It’s a valid criticism. What today’s “language” models do is that they have been able to scale up the implementation of the Mechanical Turk problem. They have done that quite well, give or take a few errors. The issue is that there’s a whole another world outside of the “answers” provided by Mechanicak Turk-like solutions, this is what guys like Chomsky allude to.