Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language
The author (bafflingly) seems to have completely missed the point- since anything they state up to page 15 (at which point I stopped reading) does not refute Chomsky's points at all. The author talks about LLMs and how they generate text and then goes on to talk about how it refutes Chomsky's claim about syntax and semantics. However it does not since Chomsky's primary claim is about how HUMANS acquire language.<p>The fact that you can replicate coherent text from probabilistic analysis and modeling of a very large corpus does not mean that humans acquire and generate language the same way. [edited page = 15]