ClaimsGary Marcus

“I think that’s where the real action is going to be, is in trying to figure out theoretically sound and intricate, intimate ways of bringing together these traditions.”

Gary Marcus, podcast guest 14 November 2019 EP25 Gary Marcus on Rebooting AI (The Jim Rutt Show)

Prediction AI capabilities

The real action in AI will be in finding theoretically sound ways of combining symbolic and deep learning traditions.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Reasoning

Vague prediction with no horizon about where the real action will be.

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Gary Marcus, “The real action in AI will be in finding theoretically sound ways of combining symbolic and deep learning traditions.” (said 14 November 2019). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_f6be560bcd5d, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f6be560bcd5d

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