Right .. but I see that as a problem if you claim that Python doesn’t have a relevant grammar. Of course everyone knows it has a grammar so no one claims this. But people DO claim that natural language does not have a grammar. This is what I have a problem with. If they said natural language has a grammar and “neural networks can check a natural language string against the relevant grammar”, I would have no problems. But then these people would not be in a position to claim that they have discovered something new about language, just like we are not in a position to claim that we have discovered anything about Python.
Right .. but I see that as a problem if you claim that Python doesn’t have a relevant grammar. Of course everyone knows it has a grammar so no one claims this. But people DO claim that natural language does not have a grammar. This is what I have a problem with. If they said natural language has a grammar and “neural networks can check a natural language string against the relevant grammar”, I would have no problems. But then these people would not be in a position to claim that they have discovered something new about language, just like we are not in a position to claim that we have discovered anything about Python.