Osama Bin Laden speaks against Artificial Intelligence

What has Osama Bin Laden got to do with artificial intelligence? In his latest taped speech (transcript by ABC news ), he refers to Noam Chomsky (Wikipedia background on Noam Chomsky) as "among the most capable" of commentators on the Iraq war.

The connection to artificial intelligence is revealed in an exclusive by Mind Hacks, which claims to be a deleted part of the Bin Laden speech.

The deleted part says:

People of America: while the cognitive revolution started within your own shores and changed the face of the world, it seems the lessons of the destruction of behaviourism have not been learnt.

Through the careful analysis of Chomsky, it was clear that language could not be entirely accounted for by the influence of environment and culture on a general learning mechanism. While some heeded the messages, some of your brethren remained unconvinced.

Now that the spectre of connectionism has raised its ugly head and has been inappropriately glorified by the power of technological corporations, our understanding of the role of transformational grammars in language development is threatened.

And I tell you, artificial intelligence is a false god that provides correlative and not causal models of language acquisition. The infallible methodologies are the comparative study of world languages and lesion analyses of those who must be treated with mercy owing to their acquired dysphasias [Microsoft Bookshelf: difficulty in expressing or understanding thought in spoken or written words, caused by brain damage].

So Bin Laden is against behaviourism, connectionism, and artificial intelligence.