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AlexMennen comments on Deepmind Plans for Rat-Level AI - Less Wrong Discussion

20 Post author: moridinamael 18 August 2016 04:26PM

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Comment author: AlexMennen 18 August 2016 10:02:29PM 15 points [-]

Great things tend not to happen on a 6 month time scale. It does not make sense to conclude that ML has slowed down in the last 6 months just because that was the last time machine learning passed a milestone that people who don't specialize in ML were paying attention to.