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184 | Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Can We Deeply Learn Our Way Into Common Sense?

Is there a way of letting computers figure out the same kind of common sense that we have? I take a view that, i think it's a little like what kant was trying to say in the critique of pure reason. If you don't have prior notions about enduring objects that you're talking about, then you just, you're just in correlation soup. So i don't fully have an answer to the question that you posed a minute ago. But my view is you can learn a lot, but that you need a framework to learn, to imbed that knowledge. In fact, i think g t is a brilliant experiment, unintentional, but brilliant.

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