Nope, it was Yudkowsky in a Facebook group about AI x-risk around 2015 or 2016. He specifically said he didn’t think deep learning was the royal road to AGI.
This is a narrow point[1] but I want to point out that [not deep learning] is extremely broad, and the usage of the term “good old-fashioned AI” has been moving around between [not deep learning] and [deduction on Lisp symbols], and I think there’s a huge space of techniques inbetween (probabilistic programming, program induction/synthesis, support vector machines, dimensionality reduction à la t-SNE/UMAP, evolutionary methods…).
A hobby-horse of mine.
This is a narrow point[1] but I want to point out that [not deep learning] is extremely broad, and the usage of the term “good old-fashioned AI” has been moving around between [not deep learning] and [deduction on Lisp symbols], and I think there’s a huge space of techniques inbetween (probabilistic programming, program induction/synthesis, support vector machines, dimensionality reduction à la t-SNE/UMAP, evolutionary methods…).
A hobby-horse of mine.