AI needs to be taught everyday common sense, not just pattern recognition, to overcome the limits of deep learning and produce safer, more useful devices
FIVE YEARS AGO, the coders at DeepMind, a London-based artificial intelligence company, watched excitedly as an AI taught itself to play a classic arcade game. Tweets: @manan , @went1955 , and @manjusrii Tweets: @manan : well, we failed teaching ourselves that so let's see how it goes with robots. http://www.techmeme.com/... Robert Went / @went1955 : How to teach AI some common sense: For years, it seemed as though deep learning would only keep getting better, leading inexorably to a machine with the fluid, supple intelligence of a person. But some heretics argue that deep learning is hitting a wall http://www.wired.com/... Dr Belinda Barnet / @manjusrii : AI is a “blank slate”: It assumes humans build intelligence purely by observing the world around them, and that machines can too. But Marcus doesn't think that's how humans work. Noam Chomsky argued that humans are born wired to learn. http://www.wired.com/...