Comment by foldr

Actually no. Chomsky has never really given a stuff about Chinese Room style arguments about whether computers can “really” understand language. His problem with LLMs (if they are presented as a contribution to linguistic science) is primarily that they don’t advance our understanding of the human capacity for language. The main reasons for this are that (i) they are able to learn languages that are very much unlike human languages and (ii) they require vastly more linguistic data than human children have access to.