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A conversation between Terry Sejnowski and Stephen Wolfram (August 12, 2021) Part 1

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Key Breakthrough in Linguistics

At the time, guistic was dominated by syntax. It was syntax, al word order all the time. Our story was that we said we settled on phonology,. That's the sounds that different letters take on. There are rules for the exceptions. Its rules all the way down. But it's, it's, you know, literally 300 pages of the stuff. And then also the ambiguity of words. The same word means five different things, and so how do you know what the meaning is, right? You have to disabiguate it with the ritn context. I went to the library and there's a book, 300 page book filled rules.

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