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How To Avoid the Next AI Winter: Functionalism,...

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March 31, 2015
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How To Avoid the Next AI Winter: Functionalism, Robustness, and the AI Hype Cycle

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Transcript

  1. How to Avoid the Next AI Winter Functionalism, Robustness, and

    the AI Hype Cycle Greg Borenstein MIT Media Lab, Playful Systems @atduskgreg

  2. [AI is] getting a computer to do things which, when

    done by people, are said to involve intelligence. – John McCarthy
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  5. “Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Minh et al, 2013

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  8. The first part of a sigmoid looks like an exponential.

    – Neil Gershenfeld

  9. Did you know that disco record sales were up 400%

    for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue… A-y-y-y! – Disco Stu

  10. Ray Kurzweil

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  12. End Serial Silver Bulletism Unbundle Work on Robustness

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  18. Thanks. @atduskgreg