Yann LeCun
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They seem so human, but they are very alien.
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An artificial intelligence system trained on words and sentences alone will never approximate human understanding.
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Can deep learning systems learn to manipulate symbols? The answers might change our understanding of how intelligence works and what makes humans unique.
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