Connectionists: Galileo and the priest

[Geoffrey Hinton]

In Berthold Brecht's play about Galileo there is a scene where Galileo asks
a priest to look through a telescope to see the moons of Jupiter. The
priest says there is no point looking because it would be impossible for
things to go round Jupiter (this is from my memory of seeing the play about
50 years ago).

I suspect that Chomsky thinks of himself as more like Galileo than the
priest. But in his recent NYT opinion piece, it appears that the authors
did not actually check what chatGPT would say in answer to their questions
about falling apples or people too stubborn to talk to. Maybe they have
such confidence that chatGPT could not possibly be understanding that there
is no point looking at the data.
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