What's in a name? The 'deep learning' debate ZDNet

Monday's historic debate between machine learning luminary Yoshua Bengio and machine learning critic Gary Marcus spilled over into a tit for tat between the two in the days following, mostly about the status of the term "deep learning." The history of the term deep learning shows that the use of it has been opportunistic at times but has had little to do in the way of advancing the science of artificial intelligence. Hence, the current debate will likely not go anywhere, ultimately. Monday night's debate found Bengio and Marcus talking about similar-seeming end goals, things such as the need for "hybrid" models of intelligence, maybe combining neural networks with something like a "symbol" class of object. The details were where the two argued about definitions and terminology.