Jay Gordon defends Chomsky's view more thoroughly against my criticism here: https://plus.google.com/110181959253415840755/posts/7y2s5e9S...
I also leave some responses on that post.
I also leave some responses on that post.
A little off-topic, I like the idea of seeing AI research as an industry, and looking at institutional problems which make its output worse. Anthropologist David Graeber discusses this in (http://thebaffler.com/past/of_flying_cars) and (https://vimeo.com/41863599).
(The article and video focus on different things; the article's editors removed some arguments about bureaucratic technologies — on the internet, we fill out forms all day — and the video delves more into that.)