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Beneath the marketing, ML is a souped-up version of "draw a line through these points". Great for image recognition etc. But the line/curve/manifold won't just
by xamuel 8y ago
Beneath the marketing, ML is a souped-up version of "draw a line through these points". Great for image recognition etc. But the line/curve/manifold won't just suddenly "wake up" once we add enough points.
There's something deeper missing (maybe something related to recursion or self-reflection?) and we don't even know what it is, much less how to add it. Yes maybe we'll make a breakthrough and build a rocket tomorrow but it won't be because of any insight we gained from tree-climbing.
- jarcane 8y agoIt's like the Singularitists who passionately believe we're somehow going to transfer our consciousness into a machine, despite the fact that thousands of years of philosophy and science from countless angles of study have yet to actually solve the question of what consciousness even is.
- pas 8y agoOr, it's solved, and people stubbornly refuse to believe, that it's not much. A software that runs in your brain that makes you think that you are conscious, gives you the feeling of agency when your predictions and the world match up. The hard problem is how to wire up adaptivity and the specialized faculties.