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There's some value in putting a flag in the ground. Even if most of those people there were in the symbolic camp, a lot of their critiques of neural networks a

• marcosdumay 3y ago
  The criticism from the beginning was of a fundamental theoretical nature, and died at the 90's when people proved and demonstrated that neural networks were powerful enough to run any kind of computation. In fact, I don't recall people criticizing neural networks from being too small to be useful. Ever. There was a lot of disagreement between wide and deep network proponents, that deep won by demonstration, but "how large a network we need to handle X" was always more of a question than a "see, we'll never get there". (Even more because the "we will never get there" is obviously false, since the thing practically no limit on scaling.)
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