Connectionists: Yann Le Cun and Stephen Hanson on Yann's new vision of AI

[Pascal Hitzler]

I wanted to mention in this context that we recently started a research 
community slack on neurosymbolic artificial intelligence that has grown 
to 450 people within 2 weeks.

If you're interested in joining, email me and I'll send you an invite. 
(Anybody else already on the slack can also invite you)

Pascal.

On 12/15/2022 8:26 AM, Stephen José Hanson wrote:
> In the last year, Yann Le Cun has posted a new vision for AI, partly 
> avoiding the ambiguous complexity of LLM, and AGI, he focuses on
> explicit reasoning systems, going beyond the implicit classification 
> systems which have been so successful with Deep Learning.  Like other AI 
> leaders, he realized that  somethingthay must be scaled down before 
> scaling up.  It would be better to get the reasoning sense of a 
> non-human mammal, say a cat, then jump to human reasoning, Yann argues.
> 
> This also underscores, I think,  much of the problem with LLM--e.g. 
> ChatBOTs, which probably  will be a concern for classicial lingustics, 
> nonetheless are inscructable.
> 
> At the same time critics have emerged, because when one provides enough 
> detail of a specific vision it is both courageous and risky.   Our 
> favorite critic/troll, Gary Marcus wrote several critiques (see  the one 
> below), and  Yann and Jake Browning tried to clarify, and deflate some 
> of the Marcus arguments, as many of them  appear to almost perversely 
> misunderstand the difference between complex Nerual Network 
> architectures and symbolic systems from the 1970s (which mostly didn't 
> work).
> 
> Here is the conversation in whole focused entirely on Yann's new AI 
> vision.  Cheers and Happy Holidays--Steve
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s2S2l2OvdM&t=32s
> 
> The  description of the paper and critques.
> 
> https://ai.facebook.com/blog/yann-lecun-advances-in-ai-research/
> 
> https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/24/1054817/yann-lecun-bold-new-vision-future-ai-deep-learning-meta/
> 
> https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/how-new-are-yann-lecuns-new-ideas
> 
> https://www.noemamag.com/what-ai-can-tell-us-about-intelligence/
> 
> *(due to a small mic issue, we have also closed captioned the conversation)
> 
> -- 
> Stephen José Hanson
> Professor, Psychology Department
> Director, RUBIC (Rutgers University Brain Imaging Center)
> Member, Executive Committee, RUCCS
> 

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Pascal Hitzler
Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair
Director, Center for AI and Data Science
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