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I am curious if the advent of GPT and LLMs allows linguistic theorists to adjudicate where we are with understanding the language instinct and settling the Chom
by robga 3y ago
I am curious if the advent of GPT and LLMs allows linguistic theorists to adjudicate where we are with understanding the language instinct and settling the Chomsky vs Pinker vs Others debate.
Perhaps it is entirely irrelevant as GLT has learned through billions of examples a child never could. Or perhaps it is totally relevant as it can synthesise billions of examples better than any linguist.