{"id":2332,"date":"2025-04-02T22:51:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T02:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T02:51:51","slug":"neural-fossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/neural-fossils\/","title":{"rendered":"Neural fossils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neural network cognitive modeling had a brief, precocious golden era between 1986 (the year the <em>Parallel Distributed Processing\u00a0<\/em>books came out) and maybe about 1997 (at which point the limitations of those models were widely known&#8230;though I&#8217;m little fuzzier about when this realization settled in). During that period, I think it&#8217;s fair to say, a lot of people got hired into the faculty, in psychology and linguistics in particular, simply because they knew a bit about this exciting new approach. Some of those people went on to do other interesting things once the shine had worn off, but a lot of them didn&#8217;t, and some of them are even still around, haunting the halls of R1s. I think something similar will happen to the new crop of LLMologists in the academy: some have the skills to pivot should we reach <strong>peak LLM<\/strong> (if we haven&#8217;t already), but many don&#8217;t.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neural network cognitive modeling had a brief, precocious golden era between 1986 (the year the Parallel Distributed Processing\u00a0books came out) and maybe about 1997 (at which point the limitations of those models were widely known&#8230;though I&#8217;m little fuzzier about when this realization settled in). During that period, I think it&#8217;s fair to say, a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/neural-fossils\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neural fossils&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-language","category-nlp","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}