Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by selestify 1192 days ago
What did he say about logical grammars and neural nets in the past? Sorry, not very familiar with him.
1 comments

He wrote an op ed recently with the oft-repeated argument that stochastic models are fundamentally distinct from structured symbolic/logical models. In simple terms you can never really “trust” chatgpt’s answers because it’s just guessing the answer that looks right, not applying structured reasoning like humans do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chat...

But might be missing something more specific, would love to read that.

> In simple terms you can never really “trust” chatgpt’s answers because it’s just guessing the answer that looks right, not applying structured reasoning like humans do.

Here's an argument otherwise, that they really are developing some sort of model: https://the-decoder.com/stochastic-parrot-or-world-model-how...