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by Socketopp 2998 days ago
All these courses in data science ain't gonna solve science biggest mystery, that is consciousness. Too bad we don't focus on that.

/Cognitive scientist

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We are starting to see a bit of a pushback although it's hard to discern amongst all the hype. There's some recognition that deep learning is just one technique that happened to pop (to use Rodney Brooks' term) for a variety of reasons but that we haven't made huge progress in cognitive science and other fields.

Deep learning is the current shiny toy but I suspect we'll find it isn't actually sufficient for a lot of things we want to do and we'll run into a wall a lot of people aren't expecting.

That's why it's called data science not cognitive science. Duh!