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Human ingenuity is needed for sanity checking the design output and ensuring the search space is sufficiently constrained so that a valid design is output. To
by krapht 9y ago
Human ingenuity is needed for sanity checking the design output and ensuring the search space is sufficiently constrained so that a valid design is output.
To say humans have no place in this is the same as saying in the future, my compiler will be so smart human programmers won't be necessary.
Frankly that design is cool but not mind blowing. If you knew how much angst computer optimization packages can put you through, you might be more cynical. Even before NNs were all the rage there were (ex: genetic techniques, hill-climbing, simulated annealing, Monte-Carlo, pick-your-optimization-technique) to do exactly the things which that Twitter post referenced.
- ThomPete 9y agoI think you are mixing two different discussions. 1) AI is not there 2) Human ingenuity is necessary. With regards to 1) of course it's not there yet. But the progress is astounding and quite a few things will be possible even before we get to strong AI. With regards to 2) already today there are several areas where technology is better than humans to detect mistakes. In fact we use computers in many cases to test our work. This is an increasing trend and will result in end to end computer design and implemented solutions.