Chomsky said he learned nothing about language from LLMs, Marcus recalls

Gary Marcus revisited the remark in September 2026, tracing it to their conversation at Web Summit 2023.

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Gary Marcus recalled Noam Chomsky saying during their Web Summit 2023 conversation that he hadn't learned anything about language from large language models.

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@GaryMarcusYou remember when Noam Chomsky and I talked @WebSummit 2023 and he said he hadn’t learned anything about language from large language models? This, three years later, is EXACTLY what he had in mind.43d

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@GaryMarcusYou remember when Noam Chomsky and I talked @WebSummit 2023 and he said he hadn’t learned anything about language from large language models? This, three years later, is EXACTLY what he had in mind.43d

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@GaryMarcusYou remember when Noam Chomsky and I talked @WebSummit 2023 and he said he hadn’t learned anything about language from large language models? This, three years later, is EXACTLY what he had in mind.43d

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@GaryMarcusYou remember when Noam Chomsky and I talked @WebSummit 2023 and he said he hadn’t learned anything about language from large language models? This, three years later, is EXACTLY what he had in mind.43d