It's a very small unification, and a big, eye-catching claim. Besides, I said "aims", not "succeeds"! :) I certainly don't think this is The Big Solution, tho

It's a very small unification, and a big, eye-catching claim. Besides, I said "aims", not "succeeds"! :) I certainly don't think this is The Big Solution, tho. It's far more mundane. Unifying the techniques is nice, but all that means is that we don't have to think about GOFAI and ML as fundamentally distinct. It doesn't mean that any truly deep problems have been solved, just that there's now a reasonably reliable way to use both that isn't just "simultaneous" but rather "fused".