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by dimmuborgir 1271 days ago
His book "The Algebraic Mind" goes into great detail about connectionism (neural networks), symbolic systems, limits of connectionism and proposals to integrate neural networks with symbolic systems (hybrid systems).

The "deep learning alone is enough" camp (especially LeCun) has abused him for years but now slowly coming to the realization that we need to feed neural networks with explicit inductive biases to attain AGI which is exactly what Marcus has been saying since the 90s. LeCun, for some reason, refuses to call these explicit biases as symbols and that's the only disagreement between Marcus and LeCun these days.