I retired a year ago from managing a deep learning team. While I am a fan of the technology, I really yearn for more research aimed at hybrid AI systems. Even g

I retired a year ago from managing a deep learning team. While I am a fan of the technology, I really yearn for more research aimed at hybrid AI systems. Even given one-shot (few shot?) learning, transfer learning, etc., I keep coming back to watching my grandchildren back when they were infants. They could see a picture of a new animal in a picture book, and really "get" why the animal looked different form others, etc. Deep learning will not get us there. I think we get to general AI by using prior knowledge, exploit deep learning, and also build systems that can develop their own models of the world that they can maintain, modify, discard, and combine. As always, a great write up by gwern!