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> humans can make acceptable quality inferences from far fewer examples than an A.I. Perhaps the fact that we think we can do this isn't the greatest strength.
by moosey 8y ago
> humans can make acceptable quality inferences from far fewer examples than an A.I.
Perhaps the fact that we think we can do this isn't the greatest strength. While a lot can be said about the flaws of "Thinking Fast and Slow", one of the things that is certain is that many people reach an inference point and stop, but these inferences are often wrong.
The fact that an AI will be able to develop inferences with so much data in so little time is a real strength that we aren't going to be able to match.
I don't think that it's necessarily useful to compare the human brain with computers, because we have to apply distraction filtration to the system that a computer doesn't need to worry about much, and I'll bet that takes up tons of processing. I would argue that any computing system is an extension of your own mind, and with the data that it can compute and display it can be used to improve a broken decision making process.
- coldtea 8y ago>many people reach an inference point and stop, but these inferences are often wrong. Still good enough for us to be top dogs on the planet and even reach space. Where's the AI doing that?
- ben_w 8y agoWell sure, but that’s a completely different measure of performance, and sometimes ‘number of examples needed’ is the important one — we don’t always have the luxury of Big Data, as some experiments are just too expensive.