My main takeaway: “How can deep learning be good if it’s not symbolic reasoning, you know, like scientists have proven brains work like? We think in symbols, sy

My main takeaway: “How can deep learning be good if it’s not symbolic reasoning, you know, like scientists have proven brains work like? We think in symbols, symbols have inherent meaning, why aren’t deep learning learning symbols?! I’ve been saying exactly this for 20 years now! You know, all those deep learning hot shots think they’re so cool, but have they anticipated symbols like I have? Symbols won’t just allow us to play Atari games from raw pixel inputs, they will give us general AI. Somebody please write a paper showing how a symbol based algorithm of some kind is generally intelligent, and also that any connectionist-leaning mechanism is orthogonal to complex adaptive agent behaviors!”