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Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language by EGreg on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:09AM (#36323347)
That makes no sense. A “vastly larger corpus” would not have the property of “not being exposed to enough example sentences”. If anything, the amount of sentences is far far more than any human would ever encounter — let alone a child.
Re:Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language by dllthomas on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:25PM (#36328311)
Right, that's the point - success with a huge corpus doesn't tell us it would have been possible with a realistic corpus, so doesn't refute the argument.