In the kindest interpretation of what he said, he might be referring to people trying to use Chomsky's ideas for AI language processing (plenty do), and implici

In the kindest interpretation of what he said, he might be referring to people trying to use Chomsky's ideas for AI language processing (plenty do), and implicitly restricting that "nobody will remember him" when it comes to this specific subject. (X-Bar will haunt us forever. /s) But that's just me hoping, that there's anything worthwhile in the comment that you're replying to.