Seattle, Weird Science, & The Master Algorithm – Pedro Domingos 4/5

Seattle vs. the Bay Area, departments that ignored machine learning until it ate the world, and the long hunt for whatever algorithm the brain is actually running. This is the Master Algorithm conversation: Minsky’s “one damn thing after another” versus a few deep primitives still waiting to be found. Where to build (Seattle vs. Bay Area); departments that ignored ML; n-grams to deep learning; the brain’s algorithm and the Master Algorithm quest.