“Of course my biggest (and most difficult to confirm or reject) positive conjectures, all made in 2001 in The Algebraic Mind, remain speculative: the importance of representing kinds distinctly from individuals, separating reasoning from latent representations, incorporating explicit compositional structure and explicit operations over variables, incorporating some degree of innate pre learning, and exploiting explicit knowledge databases. I stand by all of them.”
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Marcus stands by his speculative 2001 conjectures, which he says are hard to confirm or reject, that it is important to represent kinds distinctly from individuals, separate reasoning from latent representations, incorporate explicit compositional structure and explicit operations over variables, incorporate some degree of innate pre-learning, and exploit explicit knowledge databases.
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Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, Open letter responding to Yann LeCun, paragraph 21.
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- conjectures remain speculative and difficult to confirm or reject (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- made in 2001 in The Algebraic Mind (scope, stated by the speaker)
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- conjectures remain speculative and difficult to confirm or reject
- made in 2001 in The Algebraic Mind
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: Marcus on AI, Open letter responding to Yann LeCun
Of course my biggest (and most difficult to confirm or reject) positive conjectures, all made in 2001 in The Algebraic Mind, remain speculative: the importance of representing kinds distinctly from individuals, separating reasoning from latent representations, incorporating explicit compositional structure and explicit operations over variables, incorporating some degree of innate pre learning, and exploiting explicit knowledge databases. I stand by all of them.
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- paragraph 21
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- 2024-06-04
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- , live page
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- full text, public
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