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Yeah perhaps that’s causing confusion for science enthusiasts new to this debate - Chomsky is definitely not talking about what a lay person would call “Grammar
by bbor 3y ago
Yeah perhaps that’s causing confusion for science enthusiasts new to this debate - Chomsky is definitely not talking about what a lay person would call “Grammar”. Your point is one of his main (implicit) supports though: on the face of it, it seems absolutely insane that a child could pick up complex linguistic concepts in a few short years, with many orders of magnitude less data than a LLM needs to reach the same capabilities
- taeric 3y agoIt is rather amusing how poorly industries get their jargon out into the wild. Such that it isn't that surprising to me, that this could be the crux of some misunderstanding here.