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Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by lostmsu on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:36PM (#50399423)
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Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by rcxdude on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:54PM (#50399599)
Last I checked people don't have a digital information stream running from their eyeballs to their brain. It is not the same thing at all.
Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by jibalt on Saturday November 07, 2026 @12:44PM (#50406427)
What they said, which is true, is that an LLM's inputs measured in bytes of language is much higher than for humans. Throwing in all the non-language bytes of sensory input received by humans is not valid and thus is not apples to apples. Children learning from watching a dog do zoomies around the room or butterflies in the garden is not learning language.
Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by lostmsu on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:01PM (#50407038)
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