Devil's in the details in Historic AI debate ZDNet

Yoshua Bengio, left, has been a machine learning researcher for decades and runs Montreal's MILA institute for AI. Gary Marcus is a psychologist at NYU and a frequent critic of the puffed-up hype around AI. Gary Marcus, the NYU professor and entrepreneur who has made himself a gadfly of deep learning with his frequent skewering of headline hype, and Yoshua Bengio, a leading practitioner of deep learning awarded computing's higher honor for his pioneering work, went head to head Monday night in a two-hour debate Webcast from Bengio's MILA institute headquarters in Montreal. The two scholars seemed to find a lot of common ground as far as the broad strokes of where artificial intelligence needs to go, things such as trying to bring reasoning to AI. But when the discussion periodically lapsed into particular terminology or historical assertions, the two were suddenly at odds. The recorded stream of the video is posted on the organization's Facebook page if you want to go back and watch it.