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Robot brains need symbols because the rhetoric around deep learning is getting out control. In the video analysis below of the latest AlphaZero vs Stockfish pap
by mindgam3 8y ago
Robot brains need symbols because the rhetoric around deep learning is getting out control. In the video analysis below of the latest AlphaZero vs Stockfish paper, AlphaZero is described as "DeepMind's general-purpose artificial intelligence system".
Let's give credit where it's due. AlphaZero is an impressive algorithm with results in 3 different types of perfect-information games: chess, go, shogi. But to describe it as "general purpose AI" is simply absurd. Yes, this isn't an official Deep Mind video, but this is the kind of rhetoric they are putting it out there.
I'm open to the possibility that deep learning might one day solve some of its core problems (like the elementary schoolbus-snowplow errors described in the source article) and turn into a general purpose AI. But we aren't there yet, and we're not even close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=2-wFUdvKTVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=2-wFUdvKTVQ
- soVeryTired 8y agoI think there's some ambiguity there regarding what is general-purpose: if you want to be charitable, you might interpret the description as saying it's a general-purpose system rather than a general-purpose AI. Who knows what they really meant though...
- mindgam3 8y agoMy point is, calling a system that learned how to play 3 types of board games "general purpose" in any sense is a bit of a stretch. At best this is a "general purpose games-playing" system.