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"all the impressive achievements of deep learning amount to just curve fitting"

• avmich 6y ago
  Yeah, and then the same Judea Pearl also admits that "we didn't expect curve fitting to work so well".
  • visarga 6y ago
    That's because their mental model of AI is not good enough. Apparently humans don't really 'understand AI', the irony. By the way, causal reasoning is not the product of just one human, it is based on experiments, observations and careful model building by the whole human society over long spans of time. We didn't understand even basic things such as infections and the role of hygiene until recently. What does that say about our causal reasoning powers? That we were stupid? We know how COVID spreads and many people are still exposing themselves without care, sometimes causing their own demise or somebody else's. Why isn't causal reasoning working for us all the time? I think humans can only do causal reasoning when they have a very good model of the thing they are trying to understand. Causal intelligence is not in our brains naturally, it depends on having access to specific models.
• lostmsu 6y ago
  And the God is just a function. Who is there to tell, that curve fitting is insufficient for AGI?
• xkgt 6y ago
  ... so says a curve fitting machine operating in a hyperplane in 100 trillion dimensions