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Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There Something About You That Determines Your Total English?

In the 1950s, almost entirely language is regarded as an external object. It just seemed obvious that that can't be true,. Like I said, there's something about you that determines your total English but that's not really a discovery. That's just an observation with transparent. They came from being willing to be puzzled about things that seemed obvious. So it seems obvious that a heavy ball of little, full faster than a light ball of lead, but Galileo was not impressed by the fact that it seemed obvious. We wanted to know if it's true. And then we thought experiments, never actually carried them out, which can't betrue.

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