Or you can embrace the bitter lesson, which is that symbolic techniques are considered harmful, like the future winners of the AI race have: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Not sure why you criticize a man for having different research interests than you in a completely different field.
But that's just me hoping, that there's anything worthwhile in the comment that you're replying to.
>No, it unironically IS useless.
There's an example of why Linguistics isn't useless in _the very comment that you're replying to_: pragmatics. That is, modelling the _purpose_ of an utterance is essential to process it.
Without that pragmatic modelling, I believe that NLP will keep failing to deliver what it should, and it'll continue being just a cute toy to keep codemonkeys busy with their blackboxes. Granted, I may be wrong (I'm not stupid to claim certainty over the future), but I do not think that I am.
>You're welcome to bark up the symbolic tree along with Chomsky, Gary Marcus, and others who are about to fade into obscurity.
Damn, could you lend me that crystal ball that allows you to claim certainty over the future?*
It's perfectly possible that they fade into obscurity. It's also perfectly possible that they get hailed as heroes of language processing. Or anything in between. We, in 2022, are in no position to know it. The same applies to any other linguist that is interested on natural language processing.
Specifically on Chomsky. He often spouts some stupid reductionist shit and, paradoxically, unnecessary complexity to keep that reductionism intact. Even then, his approach looks saner than "NEEDZ MOAR NODES X-D".
>Or you can embrace the bitter lesson
"If I say so then you should accept it" is not a valid argument, sorry.
>which is that symbolic techniques are considered harmful, like the future winners of the AI race have
Another instance of "I KNOW THE FUTURE! CHRUST MEEEE" through your comment...
Checking the link,
>The ultimate reason for this is Moore's law
It's already common knowledge that Moore's Law is dead, and brute force only goes so far.
*That specific sentence is a great example highlighting the role of pragmatics. Humans can easily get what I did there; NLP should too, but it doesn't.