Very really revealing thread, as DL field try immunizes itself from candid talk about it limits -- by saying both that (A) we already know the limits (@ylecun) but also that (B) that there are no known limits (@roydanroy, @earnmyturns).
These can't both be true.https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1173377561897816065 …
deep learning folks often hide behind that when they speak in public, and the public becomes misled.
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The field is in such a state of uncertainty that anyone who says they can see the future is lying. Limitations notwithstanding. In a sense, your writing pointing to apparent limitations will inspire people to circumvent them in clever ways. Perhaps those will be new ways. Or not.
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Does that apply to optimists? or only to skeptics?
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