Without wanting to "take sides" in the silly-yet-interesting debate/tweetfight between @GaryMarcus and @ylecun: when reading Gary's article it's worth keeping in mind that the dismissal of symbolic AI by many in deep learning is pretty much a reversal of 30 years ago.https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1068897657530138629 …
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odd and perhaps mistaken claim. 30 years ago is precisely the last time time when proto-deep-learning advocates were writing papers about how (symbolic) linguistics was “alchemy”, just after the huge success in 1986 of the PDP volumes.
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and those volumes were massively popular from the day they came out.
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