Read this excerpt from "talking robots." sejnowski rejected the usual top-down approach to reproducing human speech. he threw out the fat dictionaries of pronunciation and programs brimming with the rules of phonetics and the tedious list of exceptions to all the previous rules, which had no rhyme or reason. instead, he replaced all this with a surprisingly simple neural circuit. what is the author’s purpose for including this statement? to prove sejnowski’s credentials to clarify how linguists teach speech to criticize robots with neural circuits to praise sejnowski’s innovation

to praise Sejnowski’s innovation.

In this excerpt, the author is providing us with details regarding Sejnowski's process to reproduce human speech. His description focuses on how this approach differed from traditional linguistic approaches. He presents the traditional approach as consisting of "fat dictionaries brimming with rules" and "tedious lists of exceptions." This somewhat negative language reinforces the idea of Sejnowski's approach as simple and innovative.

I believe the answer is D). To praise Sejnowski’s innovation.

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