DEBATE : YOSHUA BENGIO GARY MARCUS -- LIVE STREAMING

Gary Marcus thinks that symbol-manipulation is critical for causality. In biology, in a complex creature such as a human, one finds many different brain areas. Expecting a monolithic architecture to replicate that seems to Gary Marcus deeply unrealistic. Yoshua Bengio believes that sequential reasoning can be performed while staying in a deep learning framework which makes use of attention mechanisms and the injection of new modularity and training framework (e.g. Bringing causality, in something like the rich form in which it is expressed in humans, into deep learning, would be a real and lasting contribution to general artificial intelligence.