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Symbolic Behaviour in Artificial Intelligence — mentioned by JamilD

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:45:16 GMT

Many of DeepMind's opinion style papers are like this. Another example of the "handwavy" DeepMind paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.03406.pdf It's also worth it to note as well that this isn't a homogenous organization, many DeepMind employees have different opinions on issues like this and an individual paper isn't representative of the entire organization.

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Symbolic Behaviour in Artificial Intelligence — mentioned by ppod

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:24:28 GMT

This article is correct about underspecification, but completely dodges the argument on language and understanding, drawing the hackneyed, shallow distinction between "pattern matching" and "understanding". How do you define understand? People just use the word "understand" to fill in for the magic stuff that they say humans can do but machines can't. They also sometimes use "symbolic reasoning" that way, but the best work on machine understanding and symbolic reason is done by DeepMind: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.03406.pdf The examples in the original article are about truth, not…

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Symbolic Behaviour in Artificial Intelligence — HN submission

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:36:00 GMT

Symbolic Behaviour in Artificial Intelligence

2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.