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points by theptip 1 day ago | 0 comments
A newborn brain is not a blank slate, it comes with a very rich prior (as Chomsky himself would argue), for example the ability to rapidly acquire language, control a body, etc.

An LLM must construct all of its grammatical structure, world models, etc. from scratch during pretraining.

LLM pre-training is more like recapitulating evolution of the mammalian brain than childhood development.

[–] suddenlybananas 1 day ago
Of course children are not a blank state. My point is to argue that LLMs are not an argument against UG.
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