Hinton’s “favorite Gary Marcus quote” argues that pure #deeplearning fails to understand language. I stand it by it: no current #AI system can understand a stories, articles, etc.
If you disagree w the quote, I’d like to hear your thoughts why.https://twitter.com/rsalakhu/status/1187518370276614145 …
it could indeed have been sharper, it was a brief quote drawn out of context from a brief popular essay. the whole of chapter 4 of http://rebooting.AI makes elaborates what we mean by understanding, and central chapters of algebraic mind spell out the prediction’s logic.