> "Visiting relatives can be a nuisance"—that's ambiguous. Relatives that visit, or going to visit relatives. It turns out in every such case that's known, the ambiguity is derived by simply allowing the rules to function freely, with no constraints, and that sometimes yields ambiguities. So it's computationally efficient, but it's inefficient for communication, because it leads to unresolvable ambiguity.
#YardenKatz interviewing #Chomsky
#Ambiguity #ResourcefulnessOfWords #IaR

> Take say, if I’m holding this here [cup of water], and say the water is boiling [putting hand over water], the steam will rise, but if I take my hand away the cup will fall. Well why does the cup fall and the steam rise? Well for millennia there was a satisfactory answer to that: they’re seeking their natural place.
> Katz: Like in #Aristotelian physics?
> Chomsky: That’s the #AristotelianPhysics.
https://chomsky.info/20121101/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-chomsky-on-where-artificial-intelligence-went-wrong/261637/
#YardenKatz #HistoryOfScience