Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong
Chomsky is right up there with Minsky in being part of the problem. His ideas about language being part of the genome are fanciful nonsense. Skinner produce reams of reproducible empirical observations of behavior which are, today, critical to the evaluation of the performance of AIs. Chomsky has produced interesting theories, but mostly derailed linguistics on the basis of the argument 'language is complicated, something magical must be going on.' His contributions to political debate are monumental. His contributions to science are negligible if not entirely detrimental.