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Isn't "understands" a little too ambitious for what it actually does?
by nikolay 5y ago
Isn't "understands" a little too ambitious for what it actually does?
- bionhoward 5y agoWhy would it be? What is understanding, if not simply having the right mental model?
- nefitty 5y agoA mental model implies a mind is involved.
- leobg 5y agoThere is neither such thing as a mind nor as a mental model. That’s what B.F. Skinner would say. For him, there was just an organism, and the contingencies of the environment that would shape its behavior. That’s actually very close to what is happening in machine learning today. Those structuralists who talked about a “mind” or “mental concepts” would be at a loss to understand, much less build, anything like GPT-3 or Tesla Autopilot.