Gary Marcus

Strawman alert: To extent @tdietterich directed this line at me "I object to the argument that says “Today’s deep learning-based systems don’t exhibit genuine understanding, and therefore deep learning should be abandoned" it is an absolute misrepresentation of my position. 1/2https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/1188551504388452352 …

My *actual* position is NOT that we should abandon deep learning, nor that deep learning can't get us to shallow understanding in sense @tdietterich has described, but that deep learning *alone* can't get us to deep understanding. Chp 4 of http://rebooting.ai  explains 2/2

Lack of shared definition makes this discussion a never-ending debate. If you define "deep understanding" as "human-level understanding", I guess that all AI algos (connectionist/symbolic/hybrid) will fall short of reaching this goal except if they model human brain mechanisms

Lack of reading hurts a lot too; we gave many examples in Chapter 4 of http://Rebooting.AI ; not one of my critics has actually gone through those examples and given a counteranalysis.