Gary Marcus at the Royal Society
Gary Marcus - My 25 minute talk about this, delivered at the Royal Society on October 2, on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of Turing Test can be found here . Ard then talks about the benefits of NeuroSymbolics. At the end of his talk, he shows a slide with suggestions for the future, and a quote from Turing. Suggestion 1: “Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best.” - GM This would be a very bad way to start. After a thousand years of single stepping, Catherine the Great changed the rules of chess to make the queen the most powerful piece on the board – no deep thoughts about strategy there. Machines can beat any human at chess, by the simple process of playing millions of games and working out the best move at any stage in any game. We should be hoping for new ideas, where the machine has the wit to change the rules within the bounds of current reality. Chess is a very bad foundation to build ...
