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Language models internally reproduce many aspects of linguistics, although not necessarily the aspects Noam Chomsky would favor.

Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026

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“language models sort of internally recapitulate a lot of parts of linguistics maybe Chomsky might be disappointed by the parts they recapitulate but that's too bad and but that's kind of a special case right because like it shouldn't be too surprising that a model like that a model that”
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