Connectionists: An open letter to Geoffrey Hinton: A call for civilized, moderated debate

[Geoffrey Hinton]

I am sorry that i took a potshot at you. I will do my best not to do it
again. Your aim in life seems to be to get attention and I regret
facilitating this.

Geoff


On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 8:14 AM Gary Marcus <gary.marcus at nyu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Geoff,
>
> Please stop taking potshots. Face me.
>
> You say I am irrelevant, yet you attack (and misrepresent) me regularly in
> your talks, including both this morning at The Vector Institute, and your
> “just weights” riff in the Fall. On your web page, you have more mentions
> of me than Yann LeCun. (What greater measure of relevance could there be?)
>
> To make it easy for you, I will come to Toronto, on your home turf.
> (Perhaps Vector Institute and Web Summit could co-host).
>
> We will get a neutral moderator, and a huge audience. And we can fight
> together for the things we are actually both concerned about, around AI
> safety, and make a huge statement by doing so.
>
> The world will learn from the debate—and also from our overlap.  It will
> be win-win for the world.
>
> — Gary
>
>
>
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