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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 4 Jan 2014

    Why is Artificial Intelligence perennially the perpetrator (and victim) of so much hype? @garymarcus http://nyr.kr/1dly5Ot 

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      2. John Markoff‏Verified account @markoff 5 Jan 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @garymarcus maybe because gary sets up straw men and then knocks them down? :)

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      3. Hasn't yet used the new longer Twit handles‏ @nucAmbiguous 5 Jan 2014
        Replying to @markoff

        @markoff @sapinker As someone with a background in comp neuro (wet and dry) I thought @GaryMarcus 's critique of your piece was spot on.

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      4. John Markoff‏Verified account @markoff 5 Jan 2014
        Replying to @nucAmbiguous

        @nucambiguous @sapinker @garymarcus Gary conflates AI with Strong AI. I wasn't writing about conciousness machine or otherwise.

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      5. Gary Marcus‏ @GaryMarcus 5 Jan 2014
        Replying to @markoff

        @markoff even leaving out strong AI, you still oversold neuromorphic relative to extant results. @ylecun details https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10151771220337143 …

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      6. Hasn't yet used the new longer Twit handles‏ @nucAmbiguous 5 Jan 2014
        Replying to @GaryMarcus

        @GaryMarcus @markoff @ylecun Yes. I think "oversold" is the proper term.

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      1. Richard Dooling‏ @RichardDooling 15 Jan 2014
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        @sapinker @GaryMarcus Apes at the Monolith. Consciousness has it's own uncanny valley and the first symptom is anxious supplication.

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      1. Tim Craig‏ @elasticus 5 Jan 2014
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        @sapinker @GaryMarcus , Is there yet a satisfactorily definition of 'intelligence' worth modeling as a brain-in-a-jar?

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      2. Iris van Rooij‏ @IrisVanRooij 5 Jan 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        Hyping AI, yet again--by @garymarcus: http://nyr.kr/1dly5Ot  (via @sapinker) cc: @MarkBlokpoel @JohanKwisthout @Pim_Haselager @jeublanc

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      3. John Nicholson‏ @Abacus4everyone 7 Jan 2014
        Replying to @IrisVanRooij

        @IrisVanRooij @GaryMarcus @sapinker @MarkBlokpoel @JohanKwisthout @Pim_Haselager @jeublanc 4GET it we need to raise our human INTELIGENCE

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      4. John Nicholson‏ @Abacus4everyone 7 Jan 2014
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        @IrisVanRooij @GaryMarcus @sapinker @MarkBlokpoel @JohanKwisthout @Pim_Haselager @jeublanc develop every Childs basic arithmeticASP &weRok

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      5. Tarek R. Besold‏ @jeublanc 7 Jan 2014
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        @Abacus4everyone Working on that - developing teaching tools supported by insights from cognitive AI. ;) @IrisVanRooij @GaryMarcus @sapinker

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      1. Brendan Nyhan‏Verified account @BrendanNyhan 5 Jan 2014
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        @sapinker @GaryMarcus the name?

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      1. David Tropp‏ @datropp 5 Jan 2014
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        Nature is much much smarter than we are MT @sapinker Why Artificial Intelligence generates so much hype @garymarcushttp://nyr.kr/1dly5Ot 

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      1. Mattias Arvola‏ @MattiasArvola 5 Jan 2014
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        MT “@sapinker: Why is AI perennially the perpetrator (and victim) of so much hype? @garymarcus http://nyr.kr/1dly5Ot ” #cogsci #kogvet #AI

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      1. vakibs‏ @vakibs 5 Jan 2014
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        @sapinker @GaryMarcus The very phrase "artificial intelligence" is vague and prone to misinterpretation. Nobody uses it in research now.

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      2. Colin Rosenthal‏ @colinrosenthal 4 Jan 2014
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        @sapinker @garymarcus I think David Deutsch said what needs to be said - http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/david-deutsch-artificial-intelligence/ …

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      3. Per Møldrup-Dalum‏ @perdalum 5 Jan 2014
        Replying to @colinrosenthal

        Indeed! “@colinrosenthal: @sapinker @garymarcus I think David Deutsch said what needs to be said - http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/david-deutsch-artificial-intelligence/ …”

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      1. victor hernandez ‏ @victorhernan00 4 Jan 2014
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        @sapinker @GaryMarcus la inteligencia artificial es muy peligrosa, sobretodo para los trabajadores.

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      1. Emmett Coin‏ @Industrialpoet 4 Jan 2014
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        @sapinker @GaryMarcus We are ever hopeful.. Much as young children are hopeful that their doll will come to life. Geppetto syndrome?

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      1. Bruce Lambert‏ @bruce_lambert 4 Jan 2014
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        @sapinker @GaryMarcus Machine learning is ubiquitous. Speech and face recog are routine. Robotics highly advanced. Not all hype. ++Reality.

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