[pjmorris]

Aiming to support the parent's claim (ElDiablo66, is this what you're referring to?), here's a quote from an article [1] about the Chomsky vs. Norvig debate a couple years ago:

Chomsky critiqued the field of AI for adopting an approach reminiscent of behaviorism, except in more modern, computationally sophisticated form. Chomsky argued that the field's heavy use of statistical techniques to pick regularities in masses of data is unlikely to yield the explanatory insight that science ought to offer. For Chomsky, the "new AI" -- focused on using statistical learning techniques to better mine and predict data -- is unlikely to yield general principles about the nature of intelligent beings or about cognition.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-c...

[2] HN thread on [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4729068