Connectionists: Stephen Hanson in conversation with Geoff Hinton

[Barak A. Pearlmutter]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 17:02, Gary Marcus <gary.marcus at nyu.edu> wrote:
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> sure,   but a person can learn [n-bit parity] from a few examples with a small number of bits, generalizing it to large values of n. most current systems learn it for a certain number of bits and don’t generalize beyond that number of bits.

Really? Because I would not think that induction of a two-state DFA
over a two-symbol alphabet woud be beyond the current state of the
art.

--Barak Pearlmutter.