I doubt brandonb thinks anything so simple. His post suggest a strong familiarity with the subject. I believe his emphasis is that previously, much of the stru

I doubt brandonb thinks anything so simple. His post suggest a strong familiarity with the subject. I believe his emphasis is that previously, much of the structure learning was not discovered by the algorithm but hand tuned and built in manually. The new algorithm would seem to require less work to implement because it uncovered on its own a fair bit of the complex bits that previously had to be tweaked in by experimentation. In this sense we can talk about which is smarter in terms of required hand holding and massaging. The question of what really constitutes intelligence is orthogonal to his post.