The simplest answer, respecting the article's own assumption is: They are giants of AI and they are not getting it wrong.
An immediate corrolary of which is: the article's author is the one getting it wrong. Eyballing the attempts to show that the "giants of AI" are wrong by poking GPT4 I'd say there's a good chance of that.
An even simpler answer, violating the assumption is: they're not giants of AI and that's why they're getting it wrong. Or is that a simpler answer? Well, now we have to explain how a guy with a machine learning PhD writing on Substack is getting it right, when LeCun, Brooks, and so on are getting it wrong.
Chomsky is not an AI expert, so there's that: the author doesn't quite know who he's talking about.
The simplest answer, respecting the article's own assumption is: They are giants of AI and they are not getting it wrong.
An immediate corrolary of which is: the article's author is the one getting it wrong. Eyballing the attempts to show that the "giants of AI" are wrong by poking GPT4 I'd say there's a good chance of that.
An even simpler answer, violating the assumption is: they're not giants of AI and that's why they're getting it wrong. Or is that a simpler answer? Well, now we have to explain how a guy with a machine learning PhD writing on Substack is getting it right, when LeCun, Brooks, and so on are getting it wrong.
Chomsky is not an AI expert, so there's that: the author doesn't quite know who he's talking about.