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Comment by Noam Chomsky
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist
What the programs are doing is, again, scanning huge amounts of data, finding statistical regularities enough so that you can make a fair guess as to what the next word will be in some sequence. Is that thinking? Does submarine swim? It’s the same question.AI Verified source (Aug 24, 2023)
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The provided SingjuPost URL contains this exact wording as part of Noam Chomsky’s answer in the “ChatGPT – Form Of Thinking Or Consciousness?” section, and the page itself is dated August 24, 2023. Apple Podcasts and Spotify also confirm the underlying Practical Wisdom episode “Noam Chomsky on AI, Universal Grammar, Language and Mind,” supporting the attribution to Chomsky. Because the stored quote text, author, source URL, and source-page date all match the supplied transcript source, no correction is needed. ([singjupost.com](https://singjupost.com/transcript-noam-chomsky-on-chatgpt-ai-universal-grammar-language-and-mind/))
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