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Chomsky has been saying that the way to do what we call AI is with statistics since about approximately before you were born. People wanted him to use his grammar ideas to research AI in the 50’s but he declined because he was interested in linguistics, not stats.

Not sure why you criticize a man for having different research interests than you in a completely different field.

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In the kindest interpretation of what he said, he might be referring to people trying to use Chomsky's ideas for AI language processing (plenty do), and implicitly restricting that "nobody will remember him" when it comes to this specific subject. (X-Bar will haunt us forever. /s)

But that's just me hoping, that there's anything worthwhile in the comment that you're replying to.

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