Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning

Noam Chomsky is one of the greatest minds of our time and is one of
the most cited scholars in history. He is a linguist, philosopher,
cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political
activist. He has spent over 60 years at MIT and recently also
joined the University of Arizona. This conversation is part of the
Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more
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"LexPodcast".  Here's the outline of the episode. On some
podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump
to that time. 00:00 - Introduction 03:59 - Common language with an
alience species 05:46 - Structure of language 07:18 - Roots of
language in our brain 08:51 - Language and thought 09:44 - The
limit of human cognition 16:48 - Neuralink 19:32 - Deepest property
of language 22:13 - Limits of deep learning 28:01 - Good and evil
29:52 - Memorable experiences 33:29 - Mortality 34:23 - Meaning of
life