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If the matrix has been pre-weighted and designed by iteratively applied intelligences, each improving successively on the last, there's no guarantee we'll be ab
by barrkel 9y ago
If the matrix has been pre-weighted and designed by iteratively applied intelligences, each improving successively on the last, there's no guarantee we'll be able to make out anything other than trillions of numbers - and they will be in the trillions, at the very least.
We'll do this because the jobs we want the program to do will be too complex for us to write, so we'll write programs that can write the programs. We won't understand the result directly.
This is of course the usually accepted route to the singularity.
- backpropaganda 9y agoSince we know from previous experience that untested software never works and fails at unexpected places, we've decided to not abandon centuries of testing practices for our advanced matrix-vector product software as well. As before, we test it throughly, make sure the testing and real-world distributions match almost surely, and only when the tests pass do we let the software use the API.
- the8472 9y ago> centuries of testing practices Which can be summed up as "it compiles, ship it!"
- p1esk 9y agoAs an ex test engineer of telecomminication software at a successful company I can say that you are very out of touch with reality.
- mcguire 9y agoOh, my sweet summer child! You have no idea how modern AI works. If it looks like it produces the right answers, it's done. If you ask why it fails on this case, you get a shrug. If you want to know if it will keep working, you get a blank look, like you are speaking Etruscan. If you ask, "So, how does it work?" you get a paragraph on the basics of matrix multiplication.