> The fact that you can replicate coherent text from probabilistic analysis and modeling of a very large corpus does not mean that humans acquire and generate language the same way.
Also, the LLMs are cheating! They learned from us. It's entirely possible that you do need syntax/semantics/sapience to create the original corpus, but not to duplicate it.
Let's see an AlphaZero-style version of an LLM, that learns language from scratch and creates a semantically meaningful corpus of work all on its own. It's entirely possible that Chomsky's mechanisms are necessary to do so.
Also, the LLMs are cheating! They learned from us. It's entirely possible that you do need syntax/semantics/sapience to create the original corpus, but not to duplicate it.
Let's see an AlphaZero-style version of an LLM, that learns language from scratch and creates a semantically meaningful corpus of work all on its own. It's entirely possible that Chomsky's mechanisms are necessary to do so.