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> Once a human learns chess Humans have orders of magnitude more neurons, more complicated neurons, more intricate neural structures, and their training data i
by mr_toad 7y ago
> Once a human learns chess
Humans have orders of magnitude more neurons, more complicated neurons, more intricate neural structures, and their training data is larger and more varied.
- mindgam3 7y agoRight, which is why it makes sense to apply the word “learning” to what we do. In contrast to “machine learning” which is merely a fancy way to say “data processing with massive compute”.
- mr_toad 7y agoI’m not convinced it isn’t simply a matter of scale, both in terms of the processing power and data.
- chillacy 7y agoWell if arguments by reduction are on the table then "learning" is just a fancy way to say "complex chemical process in the hippocampus that we don't understand that well".
- mindgam3 7y agoI mean, if that combination of words causes people to stop making or believing inflated claims about this kind of tech, go right ahead.
- distant_hat 7y agoAgreed except for training data is larger. Training data is often far smaller for humans. You probably saw a few cats before generalizing and understanding what a cat looks like. A neural net might require hundreds of thousands if not more samples to be a robust classifier for cats. AlphaGo et al look at tens of millions of games, humans look at a small fraction.