François CholletVerified account

I love the fact that you recognize what the interesting questions are in our field, as I'm sure I couldn't even figure out what separates the interesting from mundane questions in yours. It's exciting any time someone with different expertise shares our awe in what we study.

Cool, and I appreciate your Neisser reference. Active perception is still not a hot topic in AI today. I used to do some research in that area (active vision with an anticipative eye saccade model) in 2012, and back then these ideas had very little traction. It's trending up tho.

Psychology has had to defend itself as a legitimate science for a long time and it is exhausting. It is also common for basic insights from our field to be reinvented or restated without attribution. Is not fair to expect credit?

Moreover, building bridges between AI and cognitive is going to be crucial for making real progress towards something like AGI but it is rare that people on the AI side make genuine efforts to reach across the divide. Therefore I should have reacted better myself.