LeCun, “I’m not gonna make friends saying this . . . ” he tells me, “but I was reading this and I thought everything that Chomsky . . . was saying could not possibly be true, [because] we learn everything."

This was a theoretical debate until the case of Genie Wiley proved Chomsky was correct. Our capacity for language is innate. The wild thing is he still doesn't stand corrected and his world-view hasn't expanded to include it.

I'm not casting stones; I've done this. And I don't know if it will affect the outcomes of his research but it's interesting.