The Reformer
Changing the system from inside it, principle turned into change.
Yoshua Bengio reads as The Reformer because he now turns his considerable standing against the complacencies of the field he helped build. A Turing Award-winning AI pioneer, he used his appearance on The Diary of a CEO to press for a more careful, more accountable trajectory for the technology.
“So, I think there are short term things that are already happening, and then there are long-term things that we need to do. In the short term, there are techniques that have been proposed and I think will continue to be improved and maybe alternatives will come up to take data sets in which we know there is bias. We can measure it.”
“Okay, first of all, I think that these so-called seminal events are overrated. As I said, science really moves by small steps. Now, what happens is you make one more small step and it's like the drop that allows to, that fills the bucket.”
“Right. So, first of all, I believe that one reason why the classical expert systems approach failed is because a lot of the knowledge we have, so you talked about common sense, intuition, There's a lot of knowledge like this which is not consciously accessible.”
“So I would say it's everything having to do with the non-linguistic knowledge, which implicitly you need in order to make sense of sentences. Things like the Wienigrad schemas.”
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