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If Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Ng or any other reputed ML/AI scientist would have said Watson "is a joke" I'd give their opinion more weight
by filereaper 9y ago
If Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Ng or any other reputed ML/AI scientist would have said Watson "is a joke" I'd give their opinion more weight.
I don't think those guys would because there's plenty of R&D happening at Watson and Almaden Research Labs.
Seems like everybody's slinging mud at big blue these days...
- Nuzzerino 9y agoBen Goertzel has said (from the beginning) that Watson is just another narrow AI system.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoI know deep AI is the new hotness, but we still don't know whether it will work. Personally, I think expert systems died too soon, and we're going to see a resurgence. I wouldn't be surprised if expert systems + operant conditioning don't end up being better at general intelligence than all of the fancier machine learning. That's a very old fashioned view, but I'm an old fashioned guy. My point is just that we don't know.
- tdb7893 9y agoDeep learning has already "worked" on many tasked and has also pushed the state of the art in a large range of fields. It's not going to solve every problem but I don't really understand what you mean by not being sure whether it "works".
- erikpukinskis 9y agoWhen I say "work" I mean "lead to human-grade general intelligence". Of course for niche intelligence AI has been working forever.