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Magic algorithms don’t exist. That’s the true reality of AI. I also felt the same thing and became dismayed as an undergrad at what was going on in computation
by azinman2 6y ago
Magic algorithms don’t exist. That’s the true reality of AI. I also felt the same thing and became dismayed as an undergrad at what was going on in computation having also studied neurobiology. But as it turns out, a shit ton of data with some stats can get you very, very far.
- jariel 6y agoI didn't mean 'magic' (I know it's not that) - I just meant to imply that I think of AI as a 'function' not a 'lookup'. Inputs -> Outputs not Search -> Response Like if you train AI on a small dataset, it feels like what it's doing afterwords is a 'function' or 'algorithm' using what is in the end some arcane algebra. But if you train on all the data in the world, with a trillion parameters ... well ... I kind of feel that 'all the data' is in an AI-style datastructure, that we are 'querying' with AI. But that's just an observers abstraction.
- azinman2 6y agoSee Searle’s Chinese room.
- feanaro 6y agoMagic algorithms (or perhaps magic machines) do exist, though. See: humans.
- mlajtos 6y agoWe have ~150 trillion synapses. If every synapse was equivalent to just one parameter in ANN, then we could be just magic memoization machines.
- qayxc 6y ago> If every synapse was equivalent to just one parameter in ANN, then we could be just magic memoization machines. It's a poor comparison, though, since neurons and synapses aren't the same as parameters in a computational network. It's the same trap that news outlets routinely fall into when citing "storage capacity of the brain" in TBs and other such nonsense.