I think it does. I think LLM showed us possibility that maybe there's no language but just pile of memes and supplemental compression scheme that is grammar.
LLM had really destroyed Chomsky's positions in multiple different ways: nothing perform even close to LLM in language generation, yet it didn't grow a UG for natural languages, while it did develop a shared logic for non-natural languages and abstract concepts, while dataset needing to be heavily English biased to be English fluent, and parameter count needing to be truly massive as multiple hundred billion parameters large, so on and on.
Those are all circumstantial evidences at best, a random paraphernalia of statements that aren't even appropriate to bring into discussions, all meaningless - in the sense that an open hand of a person observing another individual aligned to a line between standing position of the person to the center of nearest opening of a wall would be meaningless.
>LLM had really destroyed Chomsky's positions in multiple different ways: nothing perform even close to LLM in language generation, yet it didn't grow a UG for natural languages
Do you even understand Chomsky's position?
To be honest, I don't, at least not entirely. Noam Chomsky to me is patron saint of compilers and apparent sources of quotes used to justify eye-rolling decisions regarding i18n. At least a lot of his followers' understanding is that the UG is THE UG and a Universal Syntax, and/or is a decisive and scientific refutation of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis as well as European structuralism, not whatever his later works on UG that progressively pivoted its definition or nature vs nurture debates were "meant" to be discussing.
To me this text look like his Baghdad Bob moment. Silly but right and noble. What else is it?
Ironically these days you can just throw this text at ChatGPT to have it debloat or critique text like this transcripts. Worse results than taking time reading yourself, but gives you validation if that is what is needed.