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It's somewhat funny that the rest of Chomsky's ideology doesn't seem to really take that insight serious.
by eru 4mo ago
It's somewhat funny that the rest of Chomsky's ideology doesn't seem to really take that insight serious.
- seanmcdirmid 4mo agoJust look at how wrong Chomsky was about his core subject with the rise of LLMs. He basically invented a whole field that turned out to be a very wrong direction.
- eru 4mo agoYes, though I wouldn't hold it (too much) against him when he was young and the field was even younger. In the 1950s and 1960s and even later, it wasn't clear that LLMs would eventually win at all yet alone win so hard. And Chomsky's early work is genuinely useful. It's just that it's useful formal languages, like programming languages, and has only limited applicability to natural human languages.
- ahartmetz 4mo agoI'm not aware of any obvious contradictions tbh. What do you mean?