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AI - Artificial Intelligence has been an elusive goal of computer science, but the ChomskyBot shows how trivial it is to create an Artificial Intellectual; in this case a perfect clone of Noam Chomsky. Hit refresh a few times, it’s fun!
Ejaz Haider says to his fellow Pakistanis, “it is good to see so many people who are so eager to listen to Noam Chomsky. That means there is hope still for us. But we should be wary that … we are not doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.” This is an intellectual’s way of saying “I am but dung compared to the intellectual purity of Noam Chomsky, but the rest of you are dung compared to my intellectual purity.” How much happier Mr. Haider could be if only he knew how easily he could lift himself to be an equal peer of Chomsky simply by reading aloud pages from the ChomskyBot!
In 1946, George Orwell wrote an essay called “Politics and the English Language”. It’s purely common-sense, but you will never read the writing of certain “intellectuals” the same after reading this essay. If you took any random Ralph Nader speech, and modified it to deliberately violate all six of Orwell’s basic rules of language, you would have a Chomsky piece. Chomsky is a linguist who loves to spout opinions about politics, so why does he so blatantly violate such common-sense advice about politics and language? He can’t be stupid, so maybe he is cynical. Or maybe he has come unhinged. Or maybe this whole “Chomsky” thing is a conspiracy. It mystifies the mind! Maybe we should just ask him about it.