Connectionists: Stephen Hanson in conversation with Geoff Hinton

[Gary Marcus]

Steve,

I’d love to hear you elaborate on this part, 

 Many more shoes will drop in the next few years.  I for one don't believe one of those shoes will be Hybrid approaches to AI,  I've seen that movie before and it didn't end well.  


I’d love your take on why you think the impetus towards hybrid models ended badly before, and why you think that the mistakes of the past can’t be corrected. Also it’ would be really instructive to compare with deep learning, which lost steam for quite some time, but reemerged much stronger than ever before. Might not the same happen with hybrid models?

I am cc’ing some folks (possibly not on this list) who have recently been sympathetic to hybrid models, in hopes of a rich discussion.  (And, Geoff, still cc’d, I’d genuinely welcome your thoughts if you want to add them, despite our recent friction.)

Cheers, 
Gary 


> On Feb 3, 2022, at 5:10 AM, Stephen José Hanson <jose at rubic.rutgers.edu> wrote:
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> I would encourage you to read the whole transcript, as you will see the discussion does intersect with a number of issues you raised in an earlier post on what is learned/represented in DLs.
> Its important for those paying attention to this thread, to realize these are still very early times.    Many more shoes will drop in the next few years.  I for one don't believe one of those shoes will be Hybrid approaches to AI,  I've seen that movie before and it didn't end well.   
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> Best and hope you are doing well.
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> Steve
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