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This right here is why machine learning--although very exciting--is an incredibly frustrating endeavor compared to software engineering. It's statistics at its
by patrickmn 10y ago
This right here is why machine learning--although very exciting--is an incredibly frustrating endeavor compared to software engineering. It's statistics at its "worst."
At the risk of glorifying AI, a good analogy might be that understanding a complex neural network is similar in nature to trying to understand how neurons in a human brain are wired, and why they cause some things to happen (or not happen) with some probability. It's more like the practice of medicine than it is engineering.
- smallnamespace 10y agoWell, the brain is also a very complex network, and we can often understand each other and predict future outputs just fine. The difference though is that humans have evolved to be able to explain themselves to others and to themselves, even to the point of confabulating false motivations. Until we work on making neural nets explain themselves, they'll continue to be black boxes.
- solipsism 10y agoOur reach shouldn't be limited by our brains' capacity to comprehend, should it?
- patrickmn 10y agoThat reminds me of http://multivax.com/last_question.html http://multivax.com/last_question.html