[The developers of conventional artificial intelligence] have to admit that deep learning is
doing amazing things, and they want to use [it] as a kind of low-level servant to provide
them with what they need to make their symbolic reasoning work.
—Geoffrey Hinton, 2018
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Hinton is one of the pioneers of the current revolution in deep learning (DL)—a machine
learning technique frequently oversold as artificial intelligence (AI). Actually, the DL is currently
limited to pattern classification, not explicitly addressing general AI tasks—the main goal of the
conventional, symbolic approaches to AI, snubbed by Hinton. (To be fair, these approaches,
indeed, are not showing a nearly fast progress, while their proponents, in turn, frequently snub
neural-network techniques such as DL as primitive connectionist models.) More generally, I am
sorry for finding too few suitable quotes on these topics, which I believe are of paramount
importance for our civilization.
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doing amazing things, and they want to use [it] as a kind of low-level servant to provide
them with what they need to make their symbolic reasoning work.
—Geoffrey Hinton, 2018
45
45
Hinton is one of the pioneers of the current revolution in deep learning (DL)—a machine
learning technique frequently oversold as artificial intelligence (AI). Actually, the DL is currently
limited to pattern classification, not explicitly addressing general AI tasks—the main goal of the
conventional, symbolic approaches to AI, snubbed by Hinton. (To be fair, these approaches,
indeed, are not showing a nearly fast progress, while their proponents, in turn, frequently snub
neural-network techniques such as DL as primitive connectionist models.) More generally, I am
sorry for finding too few suitable quotes on these topics, which I believe are of paramount
importance for our civilization.
On Sciences and Technologies
55