Comment by AIorNot

As much as I think of Chomsky - his linguistics approach is outside looking in, ie observational speculation compared to the last few years of LLM based tokenization semantic spaces, embedding, deep learning and mechanistic interpretation, ie:

Understanding Linguistics before LLMs:

“We think Birds fly by flapping their wings”

Understanding Linguistics Theories after LLMs:

“Understanding the physics of Aerofoils and Bernoulli’s principle mean we can replicate what birds do”