Hacker News: xronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xronHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:25:09 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by xron in "Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)"]]>Chompsky's central criticism of LLMs is that they can learn impossible languages just as easily as they learn possible languages. He refers to this repeatedly in the linked interview. Therefore, they cannot teach us about our own intelligence.

However, a paper published last year (Mission: Impossible Language Models, Kallini et al.) proved that LLMs do NOT learn impossible languages as easily as they learn possible languages. This undermines everything that Chompsky says about LLMs in the linked interview.

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