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    Yoshua Bengio argues that neural networks struggle with credit assignment over long durations, unlike biological systems.
    Bengio believes that increasing neural network depth won't solve representational issues; new training objectives are needed.
    AI generalization is limited compared to human ability to identify principles across different contexts.
    Bengio sees GANs and reinforcement learning as crucial for AI's future, with model-based approaches improving generalization.

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