[LeCun][Symbolic] What AI Can Tell Us About Intelligence

Jun 25, 2022

There is an on-going debate on the connectionists mailing list regarding symbolic vs connectionist-based AI.

LeCun and Browning provide a timely and balanced commentary on this topic.

https://www.noemamag.com/what-ai-can-tell-us-about-intelligence

Quote: “And none of this is to justify the silliest bits of hype: current systems aren’t conscious, they don’t understand us, reinforcement learning isn’t enough, and you can’t build human-like intelligence just by scaling up. But all these issues are peripheral from the main debate: does symbolic manipulation need to be hard-coded, or can it be learned?”

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