Why AlphaGo is uninteresting. Same observation Phil Agre and I made in mid-80s! https://medium.com/@karpathy/alphago-in-context-c47718cb95a5 … by Andrej Karpathy 
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Why AlphaGo is uninteresting. Same observation Phil Agre and I made in mid-80s! https://medium.com/@karpathy/alphago-in-context-c47718cb95a5 … by Andrej Karpathy 
@xuenaypic.twitter.com/VzKzlegtxJ
“Pengi” was our first cut implementation of an alternative AI approach to intelligent action https://aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1987/AAAI87-048.pdf …pic.twitter.com/wYzQzHmwD4
I fear that AI is doomed to recapitulate its own history, rediscovering the same dead ends over and over. Unless deep learning is magic…
read an article that claimed deep learning's ability to generalize is an accident of stocastic gradient decent, so maybe yes :)
I think I may have seen the same article! I didn’t really understand it, tbh; but don’t think the author did either :)
I had the same feeling ... I also want to believe it is true, because I don't understand where deep learning works and why.
Well, nobody seems to be asking the hard questions, which annoys me. I’ve been tempted since 2014 to look for funding to do so…
Pretty typical, practitioners not caring about foundational issues. There getting "results" and I think some are valuable
Yes, both parts of that seem importantly right!
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