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No, modern approaches have zero overlap with Chomsky's deterministic methodology..
by german_dong 10mo ago
No, modern approaches have zero overlap with Chomsky's deterministic methodology..
- keybored 10mo agoWhat does Chomsky’s work have to do with AI?
- xdavidliu 10mo agoyeah, your parent comment appears to be just nonsensical name-dropping. happens a lot here. A different type of comment is the "X is just Y" comment that is kind of annoying, like "all of AI is just curve fitting", which the commenter wants readers to think is some kind of profound insight.
- keeda 10mo agoMy understanding is prior work in NLP and symbolic AI was strongly influenced by Chomsky's philosophies, e.g. https://chomsky.info/20121101/ https://chomsky.info/20121101/ and https://norvig.com/chomsky.html https://norvig.com/chomsky.html
- amypetrik8 10mo ago[flagged]
- saltwatercowboy 10mo ago> (((leadership))) Sorry, what do these triple parentheses mean?
- hackingonempty 10mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses
- saltwatercowboy 10mo agoOh. Gross
- keybored 10mo agoIt has nothing to do with with Jews though (triple paren).
- german_dong 10mo agoComputational linguistics was the subfield of computer science that all the smart kids gravitated towards in the 80s and 90s (RMS came up in CSAIL during this time). While proving various results about formalisms and contrived grammars wasn't bringing in venture capital, most of the guys who would eventually bring linear algebra and stochastic methods to the field would at least have had to familiarize themselves with Chomsky's work.
- cindyllm 10mo ago[dead]
- xdavidliu 10mo agoi think your comment actually mostly makes sense, except the part about neural network guys needing to familiarize with Chomsky, which is not the case at all
- german_dong 10mo agoErgo, my initial claim that "modern approaches have zero overlap with Chomsky's deterministic methodology." Statistical token prediction began with the Dragon folks, the CMU guys, and Yorktown Heights, many of whom encountered Chomsky formalism as undergrads.