Comment by rxtexit
14 days ago
Then you obviously didn't listen to a word Chomsky has said on the subject.
I was quite dismissive of him on LLMs until I realized the utter hubris and stupidity of dismissing Chomsky on language.
I think it was someone asking if he was familiar with the Wittgenstein Blue and Brown books and of course because he as already an assistant professor at MIT when they came out.
I still chuckle at my own intellectual arrogance and stupidity when thinking about how I was dismissive of Chomsky on language. I barely know anything and I was being dismissive of one of unquestionable titans and historic figures of a field.
Chomsky has been colossally wrong on universal grammar.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-c...
But at least he admits that:
https://dlc.hypotheses.org/1269#