Re:Norvig vs. Chomsky and the Fight for the Future of AI
by sp332 on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:54AM
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It follows logically from these 3 premises https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_of_the_stimulus#Summar... Those premises could be wrong but it's not just an axiom.
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Re:Norvig vs. Chomsky and the Fight for the Future of AI
by Retric on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @11:07AM
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#2 is simply wrong. Children are corrected when their grammar is off so they do get to see incorrect sentence structure. It's questionable if children could learn language from only watching TV, but that's not the standard learning environment.
PS: I am far from the first person to point that out. At this point they are treating it as an axiom because they continue to believe it despite the disproof of their premises.