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Yes, though I wouldn't hold it (too much) against him when he was young and the field was even younger. In the 1950s and 1960s and even later, it wasn't clear that LLMs would eventually win at all yet alone win so hard. And Chomsky's early work is genuinely useful. It's just that it's useful formal languages, like programming languages, and has only limited applicability to natural human languages.