> He argues, for example, that certain locality constraints on linguistic dependencies are ‘built in’ and not learned inductively. Checking in late here, but o

> He argues, for example, that certain locality constraints on linguistic dependencies are ‘built in’ and not learned inductively. Checking in late here, but one of the pillars of Chomsky's argument is the so-called "poverty of the stimulus" -- basically, that human babies simply don't receive enough training data to acquire language as rapidly and correctly as they demonstrably do. Chomsky therefore concludes that there must be some kind of pre-existing "language module" in the brain to account for this. Now, not everyone accepted this idea even at the time, but surely the argument is much less plausible for an LLM which is likely exposed to more training data than even an adult human.