Elon Musk to: Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Sam Altman—Feb 19, 2016 12:05 AM
Frankly, what surprises me is that the AI community is taking this long to figure out concepts. It doesn’t sound super hard. High-level linking of a large number of deep nets sounds like the right approach or at least a key part of the right approach
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Ilya Sutskever to: Elon Musk, (cc: Greg Brockman, Sam Altman) - Feb 19, 2016 10:28 AM
Several points:
It is not the case that once we solve “concepts,” we get AI. Other problems that will have to be solved include unsupervised learning, transfer learning, and lifetime learning. We’re also doing pretty badly with language right now.
Seems like there was a misunderstanding here where Musk meant “the AI community is taking a long time to figure stuff out” but Ilya thought he meant “figure out how to make AI that can think in terms of concepts”.
Seems like there was a misunderstanding here where Musk meant “the AI community is taking a long time to figure stuff out” but Ilya thought he meant “figure out how to make AI that can think in terms of concepts”.