Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language

Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language by mcv on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:07PM (#36316207)

I think AGI is a questionable concept. We still don't have a good definition of what intelligence really is, and some people keep moving the goal posts. What we need is AI that fills specific needs we have.

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Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language by steveBK123 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:33AM (#36324920)

If we simply AGI to be "general purpose AI", then my argument is - maybe the approach of LLMs works fine enough for textual generation, but it is not a path towards "general purpose AI".. and what we are going to have is different approaches for different niche use cases.

I'm less convinced there's any unified solution for "general purpose AI" before us here.

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Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language by mcv on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @10:51AM (#36326886)

And I'm convinced we don't even want "general purpose AI". We want AI for a variety of specific purposes. Admittedly these LLMs are a lot broader than I ever imagined, but they're still limited to generating text. I wouldn't want ChatGPT to drive my car.

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