[marcosdumay]

It seems that we are finally at the point where throwing more hardware/data at a dumb algorithm won't give you much better results. This means that there will be space for smarts at AI again. And this is happening at the same time that throwing more money on general purpose hardware is stopping generating good results too, with great opportunities for synergy.

> The field will advance when/if practitioners recognize that classifying pixel patterns in isolation isn't sufficient for robust visual perception

But this, well, it is very clearly sufficient, and we have well accepted results showing this. It just won't work on practice. That probably means the change will be full of fighting while the old ways still work, and lots of failures and unexpected successes.

[p1esk]

we are finally at the point where throwing more hardware/data at a dumb algorithm won't give you much better results

Recent success of gpt-2 indicates otherwise.