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I see a huge difference between the deep learning approach and the CYC approach. I don't see enough common ground to call them both "common sense" approaches. And, in fact, in the conversation up to this point, the CYC approach is what we were calling the "common sense" approach. So I don't see deep learning as validation of the common sense approach, at least not as the terms have been used in this conversation.

>>Animal+(OP)
That's why I defined common sense in terms of collection of and acting on knowledge via human intuition mechanism. It is a neural network or series of them that finds patterns in raw data with reinforcement. That sounds like deep learning. Cyc is doing something similar but hand-crafted instead of raw and logical instead of probabilistic.

Intuition just adds connections to other knowledge and reasoning part. That our brain is hybrid like that is why I advocate more hybrids, all with an intuition-like component.