In this piece Chomsky, the intellectual godfather of an effort that failed for 60 years to build machines that can converse in ordinary language. Woah there.

In this piece Chomsky, the intellectual godfather of an effort that failed for 60 years to build machines that can converse in ordinary language. Woah there. When did Chomsky ever take an interest in building machines to do anything? What is he even referring to here? From the get-go, this piece sounds like an ad-hominem slam.