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There is a great deal of interest in whether LLMs challenge Chomsky’s claim that human language acquisition requires some sort of innate inductive bias (e.g., some sort of universal grammar). aclanthology.org/2020.coling-... pemt.ru/wp-content/u... doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
The history of sampling techniques is certainly interesting. And I loved Ettinger and others showing BERT liked "A robin is not a [bird]" since bird was salient in context. arxiv.org/pdf/1907.13528. But models got better as things like post-training steer them out of dumb repe…
The full BBS treatment from me and @futrell.bsky.social on "How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the LMs" is now out, with all the commentaries and our response. If you "Save PDF", it will give you the whole target article + commentary + response pdf: www.cambridg…
My commentary on @kmahowald.bsky.social & @futrell.bsky.social's excellent BBS paper on the relevance and significance of LLMs for linguistics is now out, along with many other peer commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (preprint to follow)
There is a great deal of interest in whether LLMs challenge Chomsky’s claim that human language acquisition requires some sort of innate inductive bias (e.g., some sort of universal grammar). aclanthology.org/2020.coling-... pemt.ru/wp-content/u... doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
Very happy to see this out: @bbunzeck.bsky.social, Sina Zarrieß, Elena Lieven and I have commented on @futrell.bsky.social & @kmahowald.bsky.social's excellent and thought-provoking BBS target article on LLMs and linguistics. I also enjoyed reading the other commentaries a lot!
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