A thoughtful post on the limitations on deep learning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.00631.pdf
I think the author's criticisms of deep learning's coverage in the media are fair, and that we should consider it another tool in the toolbox. Comparing it with AGI seems like a very high bar though.
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Learning software development through playing and contributing to a MUD: https://tashian.com/articles/how-i-learned-to-program/
Exploring design ideas using AI as a learning assistant, for creative exploration: https://andymatuschak.org/hmwl/
I've been learning some Common Lisp by writing some simple JSON munging programs. I'm sure it's not best practice — I should probably deserialise to CLOS automatically — but it's a nice way to get comfortable with the basics.
It feels weird deliberately ignoring helpers though.