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Gary Marcus is so deep into the "connectionism doesnt work" rabbit hole that he'd deny his own sentience if it turned out he was made of silicon. I just ignore
by plutonorm 4y ago
Gary Marcus is so deep into the "connectionism doesnt work" rabbit hole that he'd deny his own sentience if it turned out he was made of silicon.
I just ignore him as he only appears to be getting more and more incorrect.
- mark_l_watson 4y agoSure, he can sound strident but I still think Gary Marcus's riffing on the limitations of deep learning is important. The book "Rebooting AI" that he wrote with Ernest Davis is well worth reading if you are an AI practitioner (a term I use to describe myself). I think Marcus is also well worth following on Twitter to get a contrarian view (he re-tweeted me two weeks ago, so there is some overlap in our points of view). Way back when, I liked Roger Penrose's 1989 book "The Emperor's New Mind" even though some of the people I worked with thought he was a devil for writing that. I am much more optimistic than Marcus, but find his work useful and thoughtful.