Given that Norvig was one of the authors of "The Unreasonable
Effectiveness of Data"[1] and his famous statistical spell checker[2] are both about showing how rule and symbolic intelligence doesn't work I don't think your thesis is quite correct.
[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
I think they referred to him internally which makes sense. I follow him on LinkedIn and most of the posts are about GCS AI services, which is external facing.
Re:Peter Norvig Joins Stanford HAI
by sreeramb93 on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @12:23AM
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Basically sales pitches...
When I was at Google I never heard Norvig’s name in connection with anything. At any internal AI conferences Jeff Dean would be present, Kurzweil, etc., but never Norvig.
Re:Peter Norvig Joins Stanford HAI
by nothrowaways on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @07:18AM
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Rule based and all was long ago before data was so much abundant. Or in other words before big data era.
Google's approach to ML/AI probably is not what Peter really liked, judging from his past writings and books. There is certainly a strong sense of symbolic and rule-based intelligence, based on my limited reading and even more limited understanding.
But I guess Google paid very well... In reality, Google probably should sponsor Peter and let him work at Stanford...