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Noam Chomsky and GPT-3 - by Gary Marcus
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Are large language models a good model of *human* language?
Noam Chomsky and GPT-3 Are large language models a good model of *human* language? Gary Marcus May 21, 2022 98 28 4 Share “ You can’t go to a physics conference and say: I’ve got a great theory. It accounts for everything and is so simple it can be captured in two words: “Anything goes.”" - Noam Chomsky, 15 May 2022 Every now and then engineers make an advance, and scientists and lay people begin to ponder the question of whether that advance might yield important insight into the human mind. Descartes wondered whether the mind might work on hydraulic principles; throughout the second half of
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