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> that too stops working quickly once you get outside of European languages

I don’t think this is entirely fair. Generative grammars have been produced for a huge variety of non-European languages, even non-Indo-European languages, and can account for tremendous diversity in linguistic rules. Even languages without fixed word orders or highly synthetic languages can be represented.

Linguistics isn’t focused on the problem of outputting reasonable-sounding text responses. Instead, it seeks to transparently explain how language works and is structured, something that GPT does not do.