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Of course, we could use abstraction and analysis to tackle this...

• crimsonalucard 7y ago
  Right. I'm on HN. I'm probably a programmer. Completely forgot about abstraction because as a programmer I absolutely never dealt with this concept ever.... Of course you completely missed the point. All I am saying is that this may not be possible. This is 100% what I am saying. Let me give you a concrete example: A visual recognition algorithm. Currently the way we do this is with a trained neural net. Can a large crack team of humans reproduce the logic of this neural net in a way where it isn't a black box? Perhaps we can use abstraction and subdivide the logic into modular pieces and have different teams of people handle different components.... Currently the second method is not possible. We do not have the ability to subdivide the problem into smaller units of complexity. We do not yet know how to "abstract" components of a neural net. What I am saying is that the "abstraction" part may not ever be possible. It MAY very well be that a neural net of 1000 nodes can only be understood by understanding all 1000 nodes AT THE SAME TIME. It may very well be that you cannot find 200 nodes in the network and give it to a small team to handle and find another 300 nodes to give to another team... Not saying it's impossible in the near or far future. I'm saying I fear it MAY be Impossible. What is impossible is understanding all 1000 nodes at the same time. This is ALL that I am saying. Sheesh. If consciousness is a neural net.... It may suffer from the same problem. Understand? Leave it to the internet to read a comment and take it the wrong way.