The real question for AI is this: can we do reasoning and causality without symbol-manipulation? Deep learning founders like @YLeCun (see our debate) and Hinton (eg https://sites.google.com/site/krr2015/home/schedule …) have said no; I have argued yes.https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1065280340669816832 …
-
-
This simply rewrites history. See for example last sentence of Lecun, Hinton, Bengio in Nature 2015, or Rumelhart and McClelland’s declaration that symbol-manipulation is not essence of human cognition. Or Hinton’s “aeitherial symbols” talk.
-
I don't see this as a contradiction. The essence of human cognition may better be described by the mechanisms that enable perception. I think it may be more plausible to extend perception into symbol manipulation than the other way around.
- 5 more replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.