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Pedro Domingos predicts Backprop alone will not reach general AI
“I actually do not believe that that's the case. I think Backprop will not get us there.”
Domingos: AI is too early to predict 20 years into the future
“I would say we are so much in the beginning that we can't even really picture where we're going to be 20 years from now.”
Domingos: Future human work will shift to setting goals and verifying AI output
“So we humans, right, I can see a future where our full-time occupation is to tell the, you know, algorithms what we want to do, set the objective function, set the boundaries, and then verify the solutions all the time, continuously.”
Domingos: Machine learning's five major paradigms haven't changed since the 1950s
“There's been enormous progress. The five major paradigms are exactly the same as they were then.”
Domingos: Terminator-style AI scenarios are not happening anytime soon
“Terminator isn't happening anytime soon. First of all, because the technology isn't there, but second of all, because there is this, I mean, like a lot of these, I think, errors that people made come from anthropomorphizing AI.”
Pedro Domingos: Every major ML algorithm can theoretically learn any function
“On a theoretical level, every one of these major machine learning algorithms has a theorem that says if you give it enough data, it can learn any function.”
Domingos: State-of-the-art AI models have more connections than many animals
“Having said that, if you look at the number of connections that the state-of-the-art machine learning systems for some of these problems have, they're more than many animals. So we're actually at the point where the, you know, they have hundreds of millions or…”