Re:Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partne...
by pron on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:18AM
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> I don't think there is much doubt at this point that neural networks are on the right path for AI.
Not only is there doubt, I don't think any NN researcher would even dare to suggest (based on scientific knowledge; not as a mere conjecture) that neural networks, and certainly current NN algorithms, have anything to do with AGI, which, at this point, is still a dream or a sci-fi concept.
> They are extremely general, have made remarkable progress in widely different AI domains
They work precisely where statistical clustering works, because that's what they are. Statistical clustering is extremely effective.
> and are the closest AI approach to the human brain.
We don't know that. It is possible, even likely, that statistical learning plays some low-level role in the brain. We know little beyond that, but it is pretty certain that neurons in the brain work very differently from neural networks. I don't think anyone imagines that backpropagation is used by the brain.
Not only is there doubt, I don't think any NN researcher would even dare to suggest (based on scientific knowledge; not as a mere conjecture) that neural networks, and certainly current NN algorithms, have anything to do with AGI, which, at this point, is still a dream or a sci-fi concept.
> They are extremely general, have made remarkable progress in widely different AI domains
They work precisely where statistical clustering works, because that's what they are. Statistical clustering is extremely effective.
> and are the closest AI approach to the human brain.
We don't know that. It is possible, even likely, that statistical learning plays some low-level role in the brain. We know little beyond that, but it is pretty certain that neurons in the brain work very differently from neural networks. I don't think anyone imagines that backpropagation is used by the brain.