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> Replicating intelligences might be like black boxes which we don't understand but can generate, or grow, if you will, from simpler primitives. I strongly dou
by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
> Replicating intelligences might be like black boxes which we don't understand but can generate, or grow, if you will, from simpler primitives.
I strongly doubt that.
>As an example, "Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t quite sure why." https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151203-big-datas-mathematic.. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151203-big-datas-mathematic....
If you read the HN comments on that very article, I recall posting some links to papers giving theoretical grounding for why deep learning works so well.
- platz 11y agoThis article is meant to be illustrative, its particulars are not the crux of my main point (to which you seem to imply only doubt sufficies to refute)
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoWell no. What I think refutes your point is that we possess increasingly good foundational theories for what minds are and how they work. I doubt that any intelligence we successfully create is going to be a black-box.