Hinton unloads on Chomsky-school linguists in blunt critique
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-09-27
A repost of Hinton discussing linguists, particularly the Chomsky school. The poster notes that "he takes no prisoners," pointing to Hinton's characteristically blunt criticism of the linguistic tradition that has long clashed with the neural network approach to language.
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