Public Writings

AI And The Limits Of Language
Written with Yann LeCun

An artificial intelligence system trained on words and sentences alone will never approximate human understanding.

What AI Can Tell Us About Human Intelligence
(Written with Yann LeCun)

Can deep learning systems learn to manipulate symbols? The answers might change our understanding of how intelligence works and what makes humans unique.

Computer Vision Timeline
Website, images, and interactive components by Philipp Schmitt

A whiggish history of computer vision. Images and interactive components provided by Philipp Schmitt. ​

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AI Chatbots Don’t Care About Your Social Norms
Written with Yann LeCun

They seem so human, but they are very alien.

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Making Common Sense
 

Like every kind of intelligence, AI will develop appropriate representations of the world to accomplish what it needs for its various tasks.

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Learning without Thinking
 

As machine learning continues to develop, the intuition that thinking necessarily precedes learning — much less that humans alone can learn — should wane.