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a process of internal generation of notions How is this "knowledge extraction from data" process different?
by p1esk 6y ago
a process of internal generation of notions
How is this "knowledge extraction from data" process different?
- bregma 6y agoImmanuel Kant would call the former "rendering a synthetic judgement" and David Hume termed the latter revealing the a priori knowledge. Plato would call both simply giving substance to the forms. It seems none of this is something new. It's just that you no longer need a good education to learn about old ideas; you can come up with them on your own.
- wpietri 6y agoDifferent from what? Regular communication? Because the first involves trying to sync up two minds to have the same idea. The latter involves one mind, trying to generate an idea that ends up being useful. Useful in the George Box sense: "All models are wrong, some models are useful."
- p1esk 6y agoI meant how is knowledge extraction done by a language model different from knowledge extraction done by a human scientist?
- wpietri 6y agoSorry, I don't understand the question.
- p1esk 6y agoGPT-3 does some form knowledge extraction, right? You said above: "There's also the kind of meaning that scientists and researchers talk about when they extract knowledge from data." So if we agree that in both cases some form of knowledge extraction is happening, I wonder how these two forms compare.
- wpietri 6y agoA search for "GPT-3 knowledge extraction" doesn't yield much, so I don't know what you're talking about. But as far as I'm concerned, knowledge exists in the heads of people, so I don't think we agree on that.
- p1esk 6y agoknowledge exists in the heads of people How is this knowledge encoded in the heads of people? Perhaps through the choice of synapse strength and connectivity between neurons? What is being encoded in GPT-3 weights as it reads through millions of pages of text? How is it different from tuning biological synapses? Still don't know what I'm talking about? It's OK, neither do I :)