The deepest problem with deep learning
Some reflections on an accidental Twitterstorm, the future of AI and deep learning, and what happens when you confuse a schoolbus with a snow plow.
17 min readDec 1, 2018
On November 21, I read an interview with Yoshua Bengio in Technology Review that to a suprising degree downplayed recent successes in deep learning, emphasizing instead some other important problems in AI might require important extensions to what deep learning is currently able to do. In particular, Bengio told Technology…