I remember posting on Usenet about 15 or 20 years ago (I think it was about
neural networks on comp.ai or so) and then suddenly Marvin Minsky himself
replied "look I have done that already in 1960 or 1970). I was impressed to get
a response from him, after all he was at MIT and had written "The society of
Mind" etc.I am still impressed by the progress Google has made. If you look at
Google Translate it is just amazing to see how good the translations are
already. This was unthinkable 20 years ago. I believe the success comes from
the amount of data they use in a smart way. Halevy, Norvig and Pereira called
it "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of
Data"https://research.google/pubs/pub35179-J.
-------- Original message --------From: jon zingale <[email protected]>
Date: 2/24/21 20:05 (GMT+01:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM]
Interview with Jeremy Howard "The result is reasonable pattern recognition
which lacks explainability".I would prefer to say *lacks explanation*.
Historically, Minskyinadvertently pushed the field's academic development
underground for a fewdecades, but this isn't really enough (IMHO) to establish
a pattern ofcycles. While I know it can be annoying to make comparisons
betweenartificial neural networks and their biological analogs, this need
for*explanation* seems common to both. I am impressed by the progress that
isbeing made and remain hopeful that more is yet to come. OTOH, there is a
lotof difficult engineering, scientific, mathematical, and philosophical
workstill ahead.--Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/- .... . -..-. .
-. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .FRIAM Applied Complexity Group
listservZoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriamun/subscribe
http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.comFRIAM-COMIC
http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam
un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
