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Noam Chomsky interview claims that AI research is asking the wrong questions.

Originally published on Kapuno in the Technology community

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🔗 Noam Chomsky on forgotten methodologies in artificial intelligence (Video)

Attached the article and video of the interview.

Noam Chomsky via (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam\_Chomsky):

(born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, historian, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. In addition to his work in linguistics, he has written on war, politics, and mass media, and is the author of over 100 books.[According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992, and was the eighth most cited source overall. He has been described as a prominent cultural figure, and he was voted the “world’s top public intellectual” in a 2005 poll.

Chomsky has been described as the “father of modern linguistics”and a major figure of analytic philosophy. His work has influenced fields such as computer science, mathematics, and psychology. He is credited as the creator or co-creator of the Chomsky hierarchy, the universal grammar theory, and the Chomsky–Schützenberger theorem.

Yarden Katz (the interviewer):

He is a graduate student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive sciences at MIT, where he studies the regulation of gene expression in the developing nervous system and in cancer.

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