By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Is Big Data Taking Us Closer to the Deeper Questions in Artificial Intelligence?
Gary Marcus, Edge, 2016/05/05
It's easy to get excited about thee potential for big data and deep learning in artificial intelligence, but as Gary Marcus argues in this item, we are still a long way from the goal. Even a one-year old child is further ahead than a robot with it comes to doing things like climbing couches. Machine reading and comprehension is a long way from what humans can do. Siri is not really much of an advance over ELIZA. More...