Gary Marcus

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@flowersslop @WilKranz there have been several recent, careful academic articles that have made this case; dismissing them as midwits etc is beneath you.

engage in the actual arguments.

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will still be making discoveries like this in 2030?

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@peterwildeford *too many

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@peterwildeford 8-15 and we might reach an agreement. 4 still seems awfully unlikely to me. to many core cognitive problems aren’t really being addressed, and solutions may take a while to roll once we find the basic insights we are lacking.

but it’s a fair question.

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There is no evidence that this poster below realized that the video she was sharing was fake.

It’s not even a particularly good fake (soundtrack is pretty far off from the lip movements, and it’s wrong on a bunch of facts, and certainly not what Gates actually would have said,

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@cllpsnlf agreed

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Garry Kasparov

@Kasparov63

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When I lost to IBM‘s Deep Blue in 1997, some hailed it as "the brain's last stand" and compared it to man landing on the moon. Are we repeating intelligent machine hysteria today? And who benefits? My latest @TheAtlantic podcast, with @GaryMarcus. https://www.theatlantic.com/podc…

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@cecipsicop some maybe, but all no. too much empirical work needs to be done, even when you have candidate treatments. and many disorders are rare, so even finding subjects take a while.

we might make real advances, to be sure. but there is no realistic chance whatsoever of curing all

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For a future essay, what’s your vision of an AI-positive world, say 10-20 years from now?

Not looking for fantasy stuff like every disease is cured, we are all immortal, and time travel is easy-peasy but best-case plausible scenarios you can actually foresee if we play our

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@SulkaMike @BryanMcMahon12 bingo