Don't be fooled by all the money pouring into artificial intelligence projects these days. The former head of Uber's AI Lab, Gary Marcus, warns that the field isn't moving nearly as fast as many people think.
Speaking at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference in San Francisco this week, Marcus said the current obsession with statistical machine learning, combined with the short-term focus of companies that are investing in AI, was limiting progress towards human-level artificial intelligence.
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