This is a bit off topic but in uni I was in a computer linguists group that strongly opposed Chomsky’s theory. In my master thesis about Role and Reference Grammar, I quoted from this article: Blame Chomsky For Non Speaking AI
I guess that’s part of why I never looked too deep into his politics and now I feel like I knew it all along. It’s a similar feeling as the one I have for never having liked Harry Potter. It’s the feeling that I’m a better anarchist than you.
That’s way more interesting than whatever crap I was on about! My current research area is in dynamical systems, so I’ve seen formal languages in the context of discrete-event systems, i.e. finite-state machines, Petri nets, etc. (E.g., the logic inside a traffic light is a discrete-event system.) That, and the LLM textbook I’ve been reading in my free time (Large Language Models: A Deep Dive by Kamath et al). (I’m gonna read the actual papers eventually, but I want to get a basic overview of the current state of the art before I do.) So I’m definitely not an expert on linguistics or computer science; my background is more engineering + applied math.
This is a bit off topic but in uni I was in a computer linguists group that strongly opposed Chomsky’s theory. In my master thesis about Role and Reference Grammar, I quoted from this article: Blame Chomsky For Non Speaking AI
I guess that’s part of why I never looked too deep into his politics and now I feel like I knew it all along. It’s a similar feeling as the one I have for never having liked Harry Potter. It’s the feeling that I’m a better anarchist than you.
That’s way more interesting than whatever crap I was on about! My current research area is in dynamical systems, so I’ve seen formal languages in the context of discrete-event systems, i.e. finite-state machines, Petri nets, etc. (E.g., the logic inside a traffic light is a discrete-event system.) That, and the LLM textbook I’ve been reading in my free time (Large Language Models: A Deep Dive by Kamath et al). (I’m gonna read the actual papers eventually, but I want to get a basic overview of the current state of the art before I do.) So I’m definitely not an expert on linguistics or computer science; my background is more engineering + applied math.