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I think it's degrading to call this a 'tool', it's an intelligence.

• picture 5y ago
  "Intelligence" seems kinda hype-y to me. Machine learning is mainly just statistics. We still have just a ways to go until real "intelligence" afaik
  • visarga 5y ago
    Yeah, much of human intelligence is also just statistics. We do a lot of unsupervised learning and reasoning based on correlation. The opposite of this would be causal reasoning but that is hard for humans as well. Not everyone can use causal reasoning, it requires many years of training. The discovery of causal mechanisms (science) is slow and it takes many people to do it. For example the president of Turkey believes interest rates should be lowered in a hyperinflation. What can we do? Causal reasoning is hard. I think we do something else, slightly different than causal reasoning. We're generating hypothesis and testing them out, in an iterative process. Like a GAN (generator+discriminator) or Actor Critic (policy + value function). More famously, AlphaGo was generating many rollouts for each move, one model to generate moves, another to evaluate their consequences.