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Melanie Mitchell: Abstraction and Analogy in AI

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Is Scaling the Next Big Step in AI Progress?

I think back then, there are a lot of things just that the questions about statistical machine learning, it was just kind of getting started. No one thought that speech recognition would be essentially solved, at least to some extent, by statistical learning. Nobody thought that language processing would get as far as it did without building in structures of grammar and syntax. I've definitely been surprised.

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