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Re:Deep Learning - The Biggest Data Science Breakthrough of ... by tensor on Friday March 15, 2013 @04:53AM (#5379708)
Nobody has ever convinced me humans are intelligent. Every specific example of human intelligence put forward, it eventually ends up that machines do it better.

How is one to scientifically validate against something that can't even be defined?

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Re:Deep Learning - The Biggest Data Science Breakthrough of ... by cscurmudgeon on Friday March 15, 2013 @07:56AM (#5380077)
>Nobody has ever convinced me humans are intelligent. Every specific example of human intelligence put forward, it eventually ends up that machines do it better.

First of all that is completely wrong even for simple things like image recognition (try building a face recognizer which works under all possible conditions).

But more starkly consider the following question:

Is Geoff Hinton a machine?

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