Well, the reason a lot of people were interested in computational linguistics and cognition was probably because they want to make robots, and thought that they

Well, the reason a lot of people were interested in computational linguistics and cognition was probably because they want to make robots, and thought that they might need that. Rodney Brooks certainly is interested in making robots in general. I guess if LLMs mean they might be able to get robots without needing cognitive science and linguistics, that's sad for the people in linguistics and cognitive science who have lost that audience for their work now?