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> Chomsky claims language is built-in.

In general he does. In this article he doesn't talk about he talks about approaches to AI.

> there have been some very good baby studies that show babies inherently know statistics needed to learn probabilistic associations.

Very good. Can we identify how that works and then build a robot that has the same mechanism in a more efficient way than simply simulating a brain at a molecular level. That is his argument here.

> They didn't understand neurons and biology and genetics so well then, so yay, magic things are possible!

So where were you 4-5 decades ago when he proposed his theory to propose a better one?



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