Open letter to @ylecun: I have been explicit that I believe that symbol-manipulation is part of the solution to AGI; Hinton has ridiculed that idea. Where do you fit in? With me? W Hinton? If in between, where? The field would benefit from a clear statement of your view.https://twitter.com/tabithagold/status/1070736319901519876 …
-
-
Agreed on 1 & 2. But I see a false dichotomy in 3. An ASCII encoding is a vector that serves as symbol, as is an embedding if it used as value to bind a variable to. Systems like
@LittleBimble &@egrefen’s do that. [continues] -
And such systems (see also
@_rockt, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06279.pdf … etc) include what I think is essential: operations over those variables. That’s what I am fighting for, as explained in recent Medium post. You seem to exclude that. - 2 more replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
Geoffery Hinton explains the difference between symbolic AI and deep learning to great applause from the