The Next Decade in AI by Gary Marcus 17 February 2020 - The Sentient Robot

Machine learning has achieved amazing things, but we all know its limitations. For example, the very latest natural language processing tool still exhibits no common sense. Well, here's one reason: because machine learning is designed to answer the question, what, but not the question, why. It thrives on correlation and ignores causation. Gary Marcus rightly observes that this gap in AI research needs filling.