Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #53

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

November 29, 2019

Duration

35m

Channel

Lex Fridman Podcast

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Lex Fridman

  host

• Noam Chomsky

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #53 explores noam Chomsky on Language, Human Limits, and AI’s Blind Spots Lex Fridman interviews Noam Chomsky about the nature of language, cognition, and the limits of human and machine intelligence. Chomsky explains language as an internal mental faculty that underlies thought, with external speech being a secondary use, and argues that language is central to human reasoning and creativity. He contends that biological systems, including our cognitive capacities, have built‑in scope and limits, illustrated historically by physics’ acceptance of unintelligible phenomena. Chomsky is skeptical that deep learning reveals much about human language or mind, seeing it as useful engineering but weak science, and closes with reflections on human nature, institutions, mortality, and life’s self-created meaning.

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