I know that everyone has been careful not to mention Chomsky's political beliefs, but I am suspicious that this is actually partly about Chomsky's political beliefs, which I think are more in line with reality or at least more egalitarian than Norvig's must be, since Norvig has been running one of the hegemony's greatest tools recently. I see a parallel between the general derisive dismissal of Chomsky's academic views as being simplistic with the type of dismissal commonly given to a Chomskyish geopolitical viewpoint. I see this disagreement as a surrogate for the very different geopolitical worldviews.
I doubt that Chomsky is really so hard line about his old approaches to AI as we are led to believe, although he is probably farther behind the times than Norving.
I actually think that even Norvig is just applying recent contemporary AI to AI problems, but still is part of an old or establishment guard himself as far as AI goes. I think that the real cutting edge AI research is called AGI (artificial general intelligence) research.
The generation/category of AI research or machine learning that Norvig is tied into is much newer and steps beyond the earlier traditional AI that Chomsky might have been involved with, but the AGI researchers are a step beyond Norvig's clique. And the AGI researchers are, by the way, very optimistic about the Singularity or at least the likelihood of human-like and probably super-human artificial general intelligence in the short or medium term.
I mean the Norvigish machine-learning stuff isn't completely disconnected from the AGI stuff and completely behind and I assume it will result in extremely capable AIs relatively soon, but the AGI approaches will probably prove to be more powerful and more humanlike since they are closer to human models.
Take a look at what Brain Corporation is doing, or Numenta, or the OpenCog project. That stuff is beyond Norvig and friends' approaches.
I doubt that Chomsky is really so hard line about his old approaches to AI as we are led to believe, although he is probably farther behind the times than Norving.
I actually think that even Norvig is just applying recent contemporary AI to AI problems, but still is part of an old or establishment guard himself as far as AI goes. I think that the real cutting edge AI research is called AGI (artificial general intelligence) research.
The generation/category of AI research or machine learning that Norvig is tied into is much newer and steps beyond the earlier traditional AI that Chomsky might have been involved with, but the AGI researchers are a step beyond Norvig's clique. And the AGI researchers are, by the way, very optimistic about the Singularity or at least the likelihood of human-like and probably super-human artificial general intelligence in the short or medium term.
I mean the Norvigish machine-learning stuff isn't completely disconnected from the AGI stuff and completely behind and I assume it will result in extremely capable AIs relatively soon, but the AGI approaches will probably prove to be more powerful and more humanlike since they are closer to human models.
Take a look at what Brain Corporation is doing, or Numenta, or the OpenCog project. That stuff is beyond Norvig and friends' approaches.