On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
- At the Brains, Minds, and Machines symposium held during MIT's 150th birthday party in 2011, Technology Review reports that Prof.
- Noam Chomsky derided researchers in machine learning who use purely statistical methods to produce behavior that mimics something in the world, but who don't try to understand the meaning of that behavior.
- The transcript is now available, so let's quote Chomsky himself: It's true there's been a lot of work on trying to apply statistical models to various linguistic problems.
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- At the Brains, Minds, and Machines symposium held during MIT's 150th birthday party in 2011, Technology Review reports that Prof.
- Noam Chomsky derided researchers in machine learning who use purely statistical methods to produce behavior that mimics something in the world, but who don't try to understand the meaning of that behavior.
- The transcript is now available, so let's quote Chomsky himself: It's true there's been a lot of work on trying to apply statistical models to various linguistic problems.
Sources: Norvig