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Yes. The advances in Deep Learning are very impressive and are already proving useful. Still there seem to be no real breakthroughs in actual intelligence, reas
by halotrope 5y ago
Yes. The advances in Deep Learning are very impressive and are already proving useful. Still there seem to be no real breakthroughs in actual intelligence, reasoning or something that resembles consciousness.
- ghaff 5y agoA lot of money and smarts has gone into studying cognitive processes and neurophysiology over <shudder> the past five decades. (I first took an Intro to Brain Science course in 1976.) It's actually longer than that. Interesting bit of trivia is that the 1956 MIT IEEE conference that is usually dated as the origin of cognitive science as a field, though the term wasn't coined until later, was just a few months after McCarthy's Dartmouth workshop that's usually considered the origin of AI. I dipped into a recent MIT class on video last year. As far as I can tell, some pretty basic things--like how do children learn--are as imperfectly understood now as they were in the late 70s.