| He's making the age old mistake of conflating mapping input and outputs to intelligence. Intelligence is not defined by the ability to recognize letters. Or play a game of Go. Deep learning is a powerful tool for creating systems that have an ability to map inputs to outputs with very noisy, non-linear or complex data. The mapping itself may be complex, but it's not going about solving problems like a person would. It has no idea what letters are, and how they fit into its world. It has no concept of self, cannot contemplate its own existence -- and perhaps most important of all, has no free will. The moment we have some kind of deep learning or AI that has free will and can express interest in something other than what it has been trained on, I would say we are closer to unraveling the mystery of consicenesss and human intellect. Even babies are animals exhibit many forms of free will, decision making, and novel behavior that cannot be explained with our current observations of route deep learning techniques. |