DeepMind has set its sights on yet another grand challenge: bridging the worlds of deep learning and classical computer science to enable deep learning to do everything. If successful, this approach could revolutionize AI and software as we know them.
The key thesis of Neural Algorithmic Reasoning research is that algorithms possess fundamentally different qualities to deep learning methods. And this suggests that if deep learning methods were better able to mimic algorithms, then generalization of the sort seen with algorithms would become possible with deep learning.