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The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What? (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (28 children)

So Geoffrey Hinton is a total dork.

Hopefully, [this Nobel Prize] will make me more credible when I say these things really do understand what they're saying. [There] is a whole school of linguistics that comes from Chomsky that thinks it's nonsense to say these things understand language. That school is wrong. Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (26 children)

Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.

Hey mate, did you get your PhD or a fucking Nobel in linguistics by any chance? No? Just talking about shit you apparently have no idea about?

I didn't even know you could be a crank about linguistics, that's pretty amazing. What other otherwise really boring fields are you going to tackle, geodesy?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

there's plenty of linguistics cranks, but most of them have nationalistic tint, like people thinking that all languages come from turkish or something like that

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You give me a word, any word, and I show you how the root of that word is Greek.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

𒍪𒌝𒁍

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope that was a typo for Proto-Indo-European

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

PIE was just people wanting to eventually speak Greek but they had yet to figure out how, so they were just working backwards little by little trying to make their language more like Greek.