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I'm not sure I fully agree with this. We can use the computer to build a deterministic system. People aren't fully deterministic either.
by lwhi 3mo ago
I'm not sure I fully agree with this. We can use the computer to build a deterministic system.
People aren't fully deterministic either.
- nrightnour 3mo agoCorrect. Also, the better one gets at using AI, the better they can predict where AI might fail. This allows you to both work 10x faster and prevent many mistakes, which puts you far ahead of not-using-AI.
- cryo32 3mo agoYep. Exactly why we use machines. They do the deterministic bit quickly. We do the other bits.
- nonethewiser 3mo agoCorrectness can also be guaranteed by non-deterministic systems [0]. You do trade time predictability though. It will eventually give the correct answer, we just dont know when. I keep thinking about the implications of this. So in some sense it's less about being inaccurate and more about prematurely stopping (or not having a well defined target, but that's a whole other mess). In theory, if the target is well defined and it never prematurely stops, the question changes from "will the output be correct" to "when will it be done?" [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_algorithm
- SpaceNoodled 3mo ago> we just dont know when Ah, so it's merely functionally useless, if not theoretically.
- nonethewiser 3mo agoGuaranteed correctness on an unknown timeline is a pretty interesting tradeoff and not novel. It's just how probabilistic systems work. I dont really understand your position. Do you think AI is useless?