>> He keeps harping on problem X and Y for deep learning while none of his “symbolic AI” stuff has ever worked anywhere close to anything significant. As the m

>> He keeps harping on problem X and Y for deep learning while none of his “symbolic AI” stuff has ever worked anywhere close to anything significant. As the most trivial counterpoint to that outrageous statement, the first system to dominate humans at chess was a symbolic system, DeepBlue (using a hard-coded opening book and evaluation function and minimax with alpha-beta cutoff, and no neural networks whatsoever).