Gary Marcus

What allergy to innateness? Isn't basically all of computer vision now based on pre-trained ResNets, with *innate* low-level feature detectors?

read my january 2018 arxiv on innateness

Thank you for the reference. It's not a fair characterisation that AI has an 'allergy to innateness' or 'an unthinking commitment to relearning everything from scratch'. Innate cognitive capability comes from things like pre-trained ResNets or language models.

i would refer you to my arxiv 2018 on innateness

It's an 18 page article. Could you perhaps point me to a relevant page, paragraph, idea or argument? After a quick read it's not obvious that this article has definitively closed off any further examination of this question.

focus on the list of ten primitives for a start

my argument is that we should look at things like that; prettainrd nets aren’t getting us to deep understanding. if you really want to understand the issues you will have to do some reading. it’s not going to come from twitter

Thank you for the advice - I will be sure to seek other sources of knowledge. My point is that using pre-trained nets *is* to use 'innate' knowledge. Our neural networks are also pre-trained, by evolution. I'm open to hearing an argument against this but I haven't heard one yet.