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I don’t know about gentlemanly or eloquent, but I seriously doubt Chomsky is smarter than Geoff Hinton or Scott Aaronson.
by optimalsolver 4y ago
I don’t know about gentlemanly or eloquent, but I seriously doubt Chomsky is smarter than Geoff Hinton or Scott Aaronson.
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- throw_pm23 4y agoI think Chomsky is totally wrong on the current issue (and much else), but he did foundational work in linguistics and TCS half a century ago. What did Scott Aaronson contribute of comparable impact?
- optimalsolver 4y agoAaronson got the ACM prize for his work in quantum computing. Work which will ultimately be more valuable than Chomsky’s soon to discredited theories.
- throw_pm23 4y agoSorry, but this is misinformed. Chomsky's hierarchy of formal languages will never be discredited, regardless of his silly views on AI or whatever. Quantum computing is "big if true" category, may turn out to be important or irrelevant or a dead end altogether. Some signs point to the latter already.
- optimalsolver 4y agoAll I know is if Hinton and Aaronson are calling bullshit, it’s almost certainly bullshit. And the fact that OP thinks Chomsky is smarter than these two brilliant minds is completely laughable.