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#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

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The $64 Billion Question - Are We Able to Conquer That?

The dream of symbolic AI is that we can convert the very things that allow us to tell the difference between cat and dog into logic. We still don't know the answer, right? It seems like connectionism is really powerful but it also seems like there's this building of knowledge. How do you square those two? Do you think the connections can contain the depth of human knowledge or what Dave Romelhart was thinking about understanding? That remains the $64 question.

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