Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language
by williamcotton on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @05:42PM
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Re: building a bird… I didn’t come up with the analogy and if we all want to stop talking about building birds I would be the first to agree.
But I can’t help by think about all of the whacky ideas like antigravity vital forces that biologists contrived to explain how birds could fly and that it took Bernoulli and the rigorous study of those principles that led to the airfoil… which is how birds actually soar through the air.
BTW, what the fuck happened to these forums in the last few years? It seems like most people base their opinions on how opposite they are to Sam Altman and Elon Musk’s as opposed to any geeky principles of discovery. I highly doubt that most of y’all would have been ardent supporters of generative grammar five years ago… but slap the word LLM on something and boy howdy!
It’s kind of nice, I learn quite a bit defending good ideas. All y’all get is fake internet points.
I fully understand any and all
downvotes! Have fun!
Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language
by bbor on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @08:06PM
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You got me, I believe in the most cited living academic’s theories on cognition to stick it to Elon Musk. So glad you used your geeky principles of discovery to divine that one…
But I can’t help by think about all of the whacky ideas like antigravity vital forces that biologists contrived to explain how birds could fly and that it took Bernoulli and the rigorous study of those principles that led to the airfoil… which is how birds actually soar through the air.
BTW, what the fuck happened to these forums in the last few years? It seems like most people base their opinions on how opposite they are to Sam Altman and Elon Musk’s as opposed to any geeky principles of discovery. I highly doubt that most of y’all would have been ardent supporters of generative grammar five years ago… but slap the word LLM on something and boy howdy!
It’s kind of nice, I learn quite a bit defending good ideas. All y’all get is fake internet points.
I fully understand any and all downvotes! Have fun!