Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Says We Need To Start Over (axios.com)

Steve LeVine, writing for Axios: In 1986, Geoffrey Hinton co-authored a paper that, four decades later, is central to the explosion of artificial intelligence. But Hinton says his breakthrough method should be dispensed with, and a new path to AI found. Speaking with Axios on the sidelines of an AI conference in Toronto on Wednesday, Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and a Google researcher, said he is now "deeply suspicious" of back-propagation, the workhorse method that underlies most of the advances we are seeing in the AI field today, including the capacity to sort through photos and talk to Siri. "My view is throw it all away and start again," he said. Other scientists at the conference said back-propagation still has a core role in AI's future. But Hinton said that, to push materially ahead, entirely new methods will probably have to be invented. "Max Planck said, 'Science progresses one funeral at a time.' The future depends on some graduate student who is deeply suspicious of everything I have said."

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Re:He is not wrong

[gweihir]

And there you have demonstrated that you have no clue how Science works. "Nature did it with meat" has no scientific basis. All Science has is interface observations. And even a child these days knows that what you can observe on the outside of a box is not necessarily created on the inside.

Seriously, stop pretending your anti-science quasi-religious fundamentalist beliefs are science. They are not.